Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Bid Time Return
Book Review: ALWAYS IN MY HEART
Summary: 5 Stars
Are you the one? The question we all ask. This book is the one. It is beautifully written and the descriptions of the settings, clothing, historical timing and emotions is timeless and deeply moving. We dream of such a chance at love, with Bid Time Return, we have a chance to feel it, if only through the tender written word of Richard Matheson. I encourage all romantics to read this, it will touch you, and stay with you, until you find "the One."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: Being Actually There Makes it Even Better
Summary: 5 Stars
I wrote a previous review on Bid Time Return. The story really touched me, but what impacted me even more was visiting the actual site depicted as the backdrop for Matheson's book, the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California. Realizing the movie version of this fantastic story (Somewhere In Time) was filmed in a different location, I recently took the opportunity to visit the real site of the novel, Hotel Del Coronado.
If you ever get the chance to visit this location, do it! It is really something to walk the halls and gaze at what was described in the book. It really helps you identify and sense the depth of the story. There's even a gift shop there, in the lower level of the hotel called, Est. 1888. I found that they have copies of Bid Time Return and also a very interesting book too about the filming of the movie, Somewhere in Time Story.
For someone who loves the movie and wants to visit the real thing, the Hotel Del Coronado and the Est. 1888 are both an excellent place to find more of the experience of this timeless story of love.
Book Review: Better than one suspects
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a lot better than I expected it to be. It chronicals the last months of a man with a terminal tumor who falls in love with a beautiful silent movie actress. The problem is, the actress happens to be dead. By reading several books and listening to Mahlers 9th symphony, he manages to travel back in time to be with her. In doing this, he also manages to temporarily escape the horrible reality of his own impending death. But, like most books, the ending is not as happy as one would like.
Book Review: Bid Time Return
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love the book. It is a fantasy that will haunt you because we all know that everyone always dream of finding that special someone in time. But this book goes beyond time itself, Richard Matheson wrote such a touching and beautiful story that ever since I saw the movie and I just had to read this book. I just got done reading this book and the setting is a little different from the movie but the story is still there in more details. I would recommend this book to anyone, because to me it is one of the best book I've ever read before. :)