Tried to listen to this as audio, which I think was a mistake. If I'd been reading text, I would have been able to skip the many, many repetitive parts in the present-day ("something is wrong," "did we get the fix?" "the phone line was busy again") and just focused on the time-travel part. But I jus...
This is the first book I've read by Connie Willis and I understand now why my science-fiction-loving friends keep recommending her to me. I had several other books in process when I brought this one home, but once I read the opening chapters it was impossible to leave it alone. An utterly absorbing,...
This is the first book I've read by Connie Willis and I understand now why my science-fiction-loving friends keep recommending her to me. I had several other books in process when I brought this one home, but once I read the opening chapters it was impossible to leave it alone. An utterly absorbing,...
I found this story to be completely engaging. I lost important sleep I could not afford to lose. The only part I didn't like was how the story took so long to unfold. Perhaps I could have enjoyed the drama more, but the buildup was just not the interesting part of the story.
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
I had gotten stuck on this one before but wanted to actually read it. So I did. And I cried a lot. Excellent, but can only be described as bleak. I have a few more things to say which are spoilerish, so I may say them on Goodreads. (And then, of course, I didn't, and now I can't remember what they w...
This is one of the elite novels that won both Hugo and Nebula awards, there are not many of those and they are generally very good books though you and I can always find some titles to be undeserving, c'est la vie. Before starting on reading this novel I looked around Goodreads and Amazon for some c...
Powerfully sad ending. This book really shines with the medieval scenes. Kivrin is a likeable character and Willis does a nice job building a medieval cast around her. It's hard to write too much without giving away the ending (it's the Black Freakin' Death, so draw your own conclusions), but I have...
I am very concerned. I read “The Doomsday Book” time travel saga, eagerly anticipating it based on the many Goodreads reviews that highly praise this story. Many reviewers whom I trust rave about this book. I just didn’t see it at all, not a bit. Not only was it supremely boring, but annoying. The f...
Set in a future in which time-travel is part of an academic historian's discipline, The Doomsday Book tells the story of Kirvin, a history student whose visit to mediaeval England goes badly wrong when she arrives twenty years after her intended date and finds herself in the midst of the Black Death...
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