Part Victorian comedy of manners, part mystery novel, part time travel adventure, this is one of the oddest science fiction novels out there. If your idea of SF starts and ends with space ships shooting lasers at each other, you will be very surprised by To Say Nothing of the Dog, a time travel stor...
I had a lot of fun reading this one. It did initially take some time for me to get into it. The start was slow, although I did find the unreliable narration from the confused main character fairly amusing. By the time I was about twenty percent of the way through, I was thoroughly enjoying thi...
Clever! Going to pick up the rest of the series at some point. Also I think I picked the perfect time to read the book, the dates have amused me no end.
Ned Henry is exhausted and overworked, suffering severe time-lag. In order to escape a very demanding Lady Schrappnel and the assignment that has her running roughshod over all the historians, he is sent back to the Victorian era for two weeks rest. He just has to fix one teeny tiny incongruity firs...
The First thing that pleased me very much and I’m sure will please you while reading is that events and dialogues are rendered with a good humor. The Second is the time travelling. Oh yes, I do love humor and time travel SF. And here, it’s 2 in 1 :D. Main personages, Verity Kindle and Henry Ned voy...
I read it again, and I loved it. this is definitely a comfort read for me. Ah, the madcap chaos of it all. The naughty cat, the charming Cyril, the annoying people. Total love.***Speaking of books I love, down to every last detail, this is on the short list. The Chapter headings! The Tennyson quotes...
We all like a good laugh don’t we? But for me comedy works best in TV shows or movies. Humour in print works best in shorter formats, like cartoon strips or magazine articles. I tend to find “comic novels” (not to be confused with graphic novels) problematical. The trouble is I keep expecting to lau...
This was wonderful, it has so many disparate strands that come together amazingly in the end. I think it's one science fiction novel that would appeal to more than just the usual science fiction reader. This is the third Connie Willis novel I've read, and the other two were amazing, but I think this...
A fun time travel sf read. I particularly liked Willis's use of Victorian novel and early detective novel conventions to help convey a sense of the historical periods into which her characters time travel. The book keeps up a light-hearted sense of humor while never letting up until the last secon...
I really have to read "3 men and a Boat" and would probably really enjoy this because of it. I though I would be an ideal audience for this book but honestly although I found it good I didn't find it as great as several people have told me it would be and maybe that's part of the problem I had wi...
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