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The plot to your book is strangely like 11/22/63 without the dying aspect. I read it cover to cover and couldn't get enough. I'm not into time travel, but I thought King's book pretty much moved to the early 60's and stayed there. Excellent. I didn't like the ending so much, though. You just kind of have to watch for parallels and correlations throughout the book (sorta like Mad Men!).
No recommendations here, sorry - except that I think you will be interested no matter how long King's work is - I learned a LOT about that era as well, and a lot about Oswald and his plans...all historically based. I thought it was fascinating.
Totally agree with you. I really liked 11/22/63, but not so much the ending. I was really hoping for something different at the end.
As for recommendations, I'm sure you have heard of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. People either love it or hate it. I'm firmly in the love it column.
Another great time travel book is The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser. It may be out of print now, but you could probably find it at the library. This is the book that turned me into a book lover when I was in 6th grade. It was the first book geared towards adults I had ever read, and I loved it! Up to that point I was just reading books for school, but not really for pleasure.
EDIT: I just went back a few pages and realized the age of this thread and that I had already recommended these two books. I guess they're still on my mind after all this time.
The Door into Summer by Heinlein
The "Company" series by Kage Baker
A Bridge of Years by Wilson
The Accidental Time Machine by Haldeman
Chronospace by Steele
Maybe somebody can help me on this. I'm trying to find a time travel story I read 25 to 30 years ago. It was about school in a futuristic era. At that school, there is a History class which is taught in a very unusual way. That is, to authenticate what is taught, the teacher uses a time-travel machine to actually transport famous people from past history to speak in the class-room. As I recall vaguely, the teacher time-transported Napoleon and Cleopatra to the classroom. One particular scene that I remember is where Napoleon and Cleopatra argue as to who was or is the most famous. The story was quite clever at showing the individual idiosyncrasies of those historical personages. Does anybody else remember the title of this story? Because I want to retrieve it for my book-collection.
Normally time travel books where the heroine goes back in time and falls for the knight/cowboy/viking, etc. are okay, but so incredibly predictable. I read "Once in Every Life" by Kristin Hannah and then re-read it, then re-read it, etc. I have read a couple of books twice, but this is the only book (and I read a ton) that I've read more than twice. Yes, the heroine goes back in time and falls madly in love with some guy . . . but she also deals with other issues confronting her in that time period that make this more interesting than the usual "time-travel" heroine.
I just finished Dean Koontz's Elsewhere, in which the protagonist and his 11 year old daughter move between parallel universes that only vaguely resemble "Earth prime," where they start out. It was a page turner.
I've never read the Lathe of Heaven, but I've seen two different filmed versions and LOVED them. One of my favorites.
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