![]() ![]() There is no way I could have experienced this novel so deeply with my own wimpy inner reading voice. I feel sorry for people who can’t listen to the audiobook edition of Doomsday Book read by Jenny Sterlin. Now I understand why the story needed so many words to be told. Be warned, this story ultimately feels like a boxer is using your heart for a punching bag. Rowling novel combined with a fine sense of drama. ![]() I believe time travel is impossible but these two books are the Hard SF of time travel.ĭoomsday Book shows the intricate plotting of a J. If you loved Timescape by Gregory Benford you should like Doomsday Book. This novel is an everyday life time-travel story. There are two kinds of history – the sweeping history usually found in school and textbooks, and the everyday living kind of history full of details about ordinary living found in books by a new breed of historians. In the last few hours, I knew I would reread it again. Around fifteen hours I said to myself I was glad I read this book but I’d never reread it. Around ten hours I thought about giving up because nothing was happening, but listening was still compelling. ![]() I had read so many great reviews of this book that I felt compelled to stick with it. Several reviewers at Goodreads give it one star because they claim it needs severe editing. When I started listening I was immediately hooked, however, the pace of the plot is exceedingly slow. ![]() I listened to the audio edition, which runs 26 hours and 20 minutes. This is one of the finest science fiction novels I’ve ever read. ![]()
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