Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson
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Book Reviews of Somewhere In Time
Book Review: Time Travel Romance
Summary: 4 Stars
The book starts out a bit fragmented, then the reader realizes the narrator, Richard Collier, is recording his thoughts on a tape recorder. Collier stays at a vintage hotel where he becomes intrigued by a beautiful actress from 1886 whose photo he sees in a display. He researches her life, realizing that he's fallen in love with someone who is already dead. He reads about and experiments with transporting himself back in time to the date when the actress stayed at that hotel.
When he succeeds and finds himself back in 1886, the goal of meeting and engaging the interest of the celebrated Elise McKenna proves complicated. The book includes the usual time travel conventions where the character strives to stay in the right time and not slip up by displaying modern knowledge.
This book won the World Fantasy Award and was made into a movie with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour which I haven't seen. A pleasant enough read.
Book Review: Time travel, romance, and a great story
Summary: 4 Stars
A rich story about a man obsessed with a picture of a turn-of-the-century actress and his desire to return to that era;to say more would be giving away the plot of this absorbing novel. A rich love story with a stunning ending.Book Review: Somewhere in Time
Summary: 4 Stars
Loved the movie, so I thought the book would be interesting. It was interesting. I didn't give it 5 stars, because I didn't like the last 2 pages written by the brother. Check them out AFTER you read the book.Book Review: Interesting take on time travel
Summary: 3 Stars
Not bad. The first twenty or so pages were really slow. They were hard for me to get through since they were erratic and seemed to jump all over the place. I think that was the point since that's what Richard Collier was feeling at the time. As the story progresses and Richard travels back through time to 1896, the story drastically improves. The writing style is much more effortless and easy to follow. We get to know Richard Collier and get to see him court Elise McKenna, the Great American Actress. Nice little love story. I could have done without the last chapter (written by Robert, Richard's brother). It made the story seem false somehow and I would've preferred to be left in the world of Richard and Elise rather than outside it in Robert's world.Book Review: Somewhere in Time
Summary: 3 Stars
We visited Mackinaw Island this fall and I wanted to read the book because the movie was filmed there. The book was very interesting and I also bought the movie.