Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Bid Time Return
Book Review: A haunting and heartbreaking blend of romance and sci-fi.
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine a perfectly haunting and heartbreaking blend of time travel and timeless romance. This is what you will have the pleasure of reading if you chance a copy of Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson. This book later released in hardback as "Somewhere In Time" is exquisetly crafted and unique both as science fiction and as a genuine and tragic romance. A dying playright sets out to spend the last of his days on the road. A Chance flip of a coin leads him to a hotel where
in the lobby he falls painfully in love with a picture of a beautiful actress who had performed there nearly a century earlier. His love for her growing inexplicably stronger eventually becomes obsession and through a series of subtle and haunting events he crosses the boundary of time itself to meet her and fall deeply in love. Do not expect a trite or trivial love story nor the use of the conventional time travel formula. This book takes a unique approach at the concept of time travel and love offering the idea that physically spanning time is not someting to be achieved through the use of advanced technology or the power of superior races. Rather that the strengh of the mind coupled with the power of true love can span any boundry including time itself to be connsumated. Written in first person perspective "Bid Time Return" will leave the reader with a lingering sense of wonder and sadness. Like waking from a dream of beauty and bliss or watching the last days of summer drift away. The reader will feel a sense of longing for the love they never had for years to come.Book Review: Adequate example of the genre
Summary: 3 Stars
This novel was somewhat disappointing although it did manage to convey some of the magic and thrill of time travel. I was hoping that it would surpass the somewhat trite film "Somewhere in Time" that was based on this book. Unfortunately, the screenplay was fairly true to the book and was ultimately somewhat unsatisfying. The narrative describing the protagonist's efforts to travel back in time were extremely lengthy and somewhat unevenly written. Once he succeeds, the novel is a generally enjoyable love story with the fun twists and turns and reverse anachronisms that these Connecticut Yankee types of adventures tend to provide the reader.
If you want to read the best of the genre, there is little doubt that Jack Finney's Time And Again is the finest time travel novel of this type. Finney's book is in a word - spectacular. Beautifully crafted and historically fascinating, it is the book most often referenced as the inspiration for other time travel works. If you like this one, you'll love the following - - -
Time And Again by Jack Finney - - -
From Time to Time by Jack Finney - - -
If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock - - -
Possession by A. S. Byatt - - -
Time Out of Mind by John R. MaximBook Review: A romantic trip back in time that will break your heart!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This novel does take some concentration to get through the first twenty pages but it's worth it. I urge you to resist putting the book down. The need for a dying playwrite to travel back in time to meet the one woman who has captured his fancy will melt your heart.
The magnetism between the two is so well written that you will feel as if you were on the journey with Richard Collier. It's easily a one night read and I highly recommend it to someone looking for a good romantic tale to curl up with on a stormy night.Book Review: Very Heart Warming
Summary: 5 Stars
I was amazed on how creative the Bid Time Return
was. The director of the movie had a good
perspective and the right lighting to create
a movie from this novel. Once I read the book,
I had to pick it up and read it again. The
characters described the smallest details to
explain to us what was happening in the dullest
and darkest moments. I am 19 years old, I am sure
you will love it. It is a book for all ages and
hearts of all kind.Book Review: The movie followed the book quite well.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a special place in my heart for this story as I was working on Mackinac Island, MI(where the movie was filmed) that summer of '79. I also met my bride that summer as we both worked on the island. We were there during the entire shoot. I then read the book after seeing the movie and was satisfied that they followed the story quite well. Jane Seymour has been one of our favorite actresses ever since. Back to the book, it did keep my interest throughout, even knowing what was to take place in the end.