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| Original Title: | Bid Time Return |
| ISBN: | 0312868863 (ISBN13: 9780312868864) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Richard Collier, Elise McKenna |
| Setting: | San Diego, California,1896(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1976) |
Richard Matheson
Paperback | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 3.87 | 6583 Users | 594 Reviews
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| Title | : | Somewhere In Time |
| Author | : | Richard Matheson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | January 1999 by Tor Books (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fantasy. Romance. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.
Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1979 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day.
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Ratings: 3.87 From 6583 Users | 594 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Somewhere In Time
The last book I read by Mr. Matheson was I Am Legend, way back in 2015. Loved it. Quick, precise prose. Just enough description to let your imagination work on what you would see. A clean, character-driven story that I recommend to just about anyone.Bid Time Return is something very different.Its an almost stream of consciousness (presented as transcriptions from an old Dictaphone) trip through the last few months of a scriptwriter dying of inoperable, incurable cancer. He randomly stops at anI read this back before the movie came out -- bought it at the Grand Hotel in Mackinac MI because they said it was set there. So I didn't remember that the book's time travel actually takes place in California - since I was reading it at the Grand, that's where it took place. (The movie is filmed at the Grand.)However, I remember the music references very well. I remember being disappointed when the movie music was Rachmaninoff -- yes, I understand it's lush and romantic, but not what's in the
The book starts out rather rough and the time-travel aspect is half-laughable and absolutely necessary for the ambiguity inherent in the novel, but DAMN...THIS IS ONE HELL OF HEA ROMANCE.Love and first sight, straining against social customs, heaving bosoms, torn hearts....Sigh.I admit I kinda fell for this. I'm not a huge romance reader, but it was soooooo damn sweet and predictable and full of satisfaction.But I also really appreciated the twist. :) I should probably re-watch the 1980 movie
Opening Line: "Driving down Long Valley Road. Lovely day; bright sunshine, blue sky."This week has been one filled with romantic tragedies for me. First I went to the see the re-release of Titanic in 3D (oh Jack) and then because I hadnt had quite enough heartache I decided to revisit one of my all time favourite romances with Somewhere In Time (Bid Time Return.) Its been years since I first read this as a teenager, -god knows how many times I watched the movie starring Jane Seymour and
The book and movie are both very good but to me reading the book is emotional draining. The book gives the reader a better understanding of Elise, what her beliefs and how much she had to struggle with herself and her feelings about Richard. It also seems she may have know that Richard would leave her in the end.Richard seems unsure of himself most of the story but he was dealing with his imminent death, traveling in time and the unknowns of his realtionship with Elise plus her mother and
The uniqueness of the way this time travel story is written......and begins......drew me right in, and then......BAMMM! you find out why handsome, 36 year old Richard Collier decides to travel and write a book about it.......hooked!As you can guess or already know having seen the movie, Richard travels back in time from 1971 to the Victorian times of 1896 to find his imagined love, actress Elise McKenna, and although the love relationship is foolishly sentimental and a bit over-the-top with all
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