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Stephen King's 11/22/63. I had no idea it was a book about time travel until I started reading it. It's interesting the way King gets the reader to realize that altering time has ramifications that aren't previously considered.
Daphney du Maurier's two books House on the Strand, about her own house, and Green Darkness, about reincarnation and the lessons it gave. House on the Strand is true time travel, the end moment so memorable, and Green Darkness this wonderful modern eye view on a different, hard and terrrible time. I suppose they are both historical fiction, but they do what it should and transport you to the heart of another time so well.
As a librarian, I feel kinda funny asking for book suggestions on an internet forum - but even a doctor occasionally needs medical care, LOL. I could read some of my professional review sources or visit whatshouldireadnext.com, but really would prefer some PERSONAL recommendations from real people. Anyway, I absolutely love time travel-themed books, and just finished the excellent Replay by Ken Grimwood... now I'm trying to find something similar to read next. For those who aren't familiar with it, here's the synopsis from Amazon:
"Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"
I've already read the obvious The Time Machine, and tried to read the popular Time Traveler's Wife and Time and Again, but just couldn't get into them. I also have 11/22/63 on my Kindle, but keep hearing it's a slow-paced story... and as much as I love Stephen King, I'm lacking the patience for 850p of plodding right now. Does anyone have another suggestion, whether it's classic or current? FYI, I'm not into the "Star Trek" or overly scientific type of sci-fi, if that makes any sense. TIA!
Chad Oliver's Mists of Dawn. He apparently wrote other time travel books but I have never read them
Andre Norton wrote a number of time travel books. Dont know if any are still in print.
You say you are not interested in Star Trek, Too bad. there are a number of time travel plots that are pretty good.
Time Bandits is a sucky movie IMHO
I always liked Millennium, with Kris Kristofferson, JMHO
Somewhere rattling 'round my brai is a real good time travel movie, but I cant get it to my tongue. I'll browse the thread. Maybe someone has named it.
Sorry, I realized that I meant Time after Time, the film about the use of a time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century. I don't think it was ever a book. (I just looked up Time and Again and there was a made-for-TV movie by that name which doesn't sound as if it's adapted from the book of the same title.)
This was a good one, movie that is. I likes the thing about fate, and I likes the twist ending.
Isaac Azimov's The End of Eternity, flawed as it is, I found to be a wonderful time travel book, especially as it is the root of all matter regarding the Foundation and Robot series.
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I could read some of my professional review sources or visit whatshouldireadnext.com, but really would prefer some PERSONAL recommendations from real people. Anyway, I absolutely love time travel-themed books, and just finished the excellent Replay by Ken Grimwood... now I'm trying to find something similar to read next. For those who aren't familiar with it, here's the synopsis from Amazon:
