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This author needs to invest in an editor and a good proofreader. Also a thesaurus would help, after using 'some' multiple times instead of: nearly, about, close to, a bit under, a little over, etc. I stopped counting after the 5th instance.

The story sounded so interesting, I kept reading hoping it would improve. There is no pace to speak of, it meanders through the depressing current life of an un-tenured physics professor, and onward to several fairly miserable trips through time.

Citing his own brilliance, and describing his life as a failure, the main character is able to become different characters once he is in another time. He is not a likable person in any time zone. I was sickened by his spineless persona in the present timeline, and further put off by his blustering and threatening persona once he donned an officer's uniform in war torn France.

His references to women are ludicrous, they are voluptuous, busty, obviously mere sex objects. I could have lived the rest of my life without having to read the sex scene near the end. It was included so there could be a surprise progeny, I get that. Maynard (the main character) could have had the experience and not described it in the salacious manner we were treated to.

I still contend this has good bones. Hopefully this author will rework it someday. And it would be nice if the ending included the story of the impact on history he promised to impart.


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My Troubles With Time Benson Lee Grayson 9781463685546 Books Reviews

It kept me very interested .I would read more books like this one I hope there is another sequil to this book
Fit for a 12 year old boy. I finished it in about 30 minutes. And that is all she wrote.
A well developed premise with many humorous touches. Twists at just the right places, and a very satisfying ending. Time travel can be both terrifying and fun.
Not your usual main character but enjoyable nonetheless. Worth a sequel. It would appeal to a person with a good general knowledge of history.
If you like time travel, and enjoy a good chuckle, you will not be able to put this book down. Surprises, twists and turns and a protagonist you will be rooting for.
The book on time travel got to be a bit tedious, although I kept reading it. The interplay of a down on his luck faculty member and how everyone took advantage held a bit of entertainment value. Most science fiction olds some modicum of truth but alas this one seems not to do so. Interesting to follow the fellow Snodgrass from beginning to end.
I like time-travel stories, but I can't recommend this one. There were some major problems in plotting (see below), and every page was riddled with errors of English.

What is it that makes authors think they can type a first draft, spell-check it, and publish without proofreading it, let alone revising it? Do they really have so little respect for their potential audience? Do they really have so little concern for their own reputation? Every page of this book had multiple errors, too many to count. I didn't see misspelled words, so Benson Grayson must have spell-checked his file, but there were a LOT of wrong words -- "his" for "this" and vice versa, that sorry of thing. There were also a lot of missing words or duplicated words, and just wrong words like "check account" (for "checking"). Granted, I'm less tolerant of this kind of slovenly writing than most people would be, but this author ranks very high on the slovenly scale.

SPOILER ALERT

Now, for the problems with plotting. In short, there are several unbelievable coincidences, and many things happen out of the blue because the author needs them to happen, even though the story didn't justify them. Towards the end, the author doesn't even try to explain some of the most unbelievable things. Some examples

Years ago, on a trip in Moscow, our hero just happens to find a 19th-century manuscript by some unknown Russian that lays out five laws of time travel. This happens by a chain of coincidences that requires you not to just suspend disbelief but put it in a box, strap it to a nose cone, and fire it into the black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. His tour bus -- in Moscow, mind you, where they never count bus passengers to see if anyone's missing -- leaves without him; he goes into a nearby university building and runs into someone who speaks excellent English AND writes down the directions he needs to get to the Metro and then his hotel. But he doesn't pay attention to them and gets lost. Then he goes into a library, finds a librarian who also speaks English, and she shows him the magic manuscript. It's too much, but the author has to have this because he hangs one unlikely event after another on these "laws of time travel".

Our hero decides to visit the Battle of Gettysburg, but for some reason (never explained) his time machine blows a bunch of fuses when it tries to go beyond 1867. So he reverses course and lands in 1870 Paris. He loses his sword -- nothing else that happens in this trip matters to the story -- and returns to our time. Then he decides to go to Pearl Harbor, the day before the Japanese attack, and take over a battleship by impersonating an officer, so that he can order it out of the harbor and have it destroy the Japanese fleet in revenge for the attack. One battleship, mind you. Naturally things go wrong, and he's imprisoned for mutiny and piracy. He manages to get himself taken to where he had hidden his time machine, so that he can prove he's a physics professor from the future and not a Naval officer gone rogue, but the machine is gone. While he's in his cell awaiting execution, his shoes and socks disappear from off his feet. While he's in front of the firing squad, the rest of his clothes disappear, and this so disconcerts the men and the gate guard that he escapes. A beautiful and horny woman stops her car, picks him up, and has passionate sex with him. But during the act, he suddenly finds himself in his garage, in our time, alone. He sees the missing sword and his time machine, and suddenly recalls one of the laws of time travel -- remember, the Russian manuscript? -- that inanimate things taken to a different time tend to snap back to their original time, based on their molecular density. That explains the sword, but not the time machine (which is largely plastic). It doesn't explain why his shoes and socks aren't there, or why his shoes and socks disappeared at the same time (shoes being denser than socks), but the rest of his clothes disappeared hours later. It also doesn't explain why he's there, but luckily another law that he suddenly remembers applies to animate objects. It doesn't explain why the damage that his machine incurred during the ill-fated Hawaii trip has magically been repaired.

He finds out it's 36 hours before he left, for some unexplained reason. He was in the house at the time, so I sat back expecting a nice confrontation between his pre- and post-Pearl Harbor selves. No such luck there's another law that says a person can't be in two places in the same time. Or actually, not in two NEARBY places in the same time -- San Francisco would have been okay.

But if you think we had plot holes before, hold on to your seat. First, why did he snap back to a time when his earlier self was in the house, and his earlier self disappeared? (His earlier self never reappears, by the way.) If his earlier self is gone, how can his later self still exist? And if you can't have two copies of yourself nearby at the same time, why did he snap back and his earlier self disappear, rather than he himself snapping back to right after his earlier self had time-traveled away? That would have made sense, and a better writer would have done that or even had the self-to-self confrontation, but Grayson wasn't up to the challenge.

Then he finds that he's dropped 15 pounds and added some muscle, so apparently time travel turns you from a pear-shaped blob into a hunk. There's not even an attempt to justify this in the book -- it just happened. He also magically developed self-confidence, which might be believable based on his Hawaii experience of commanding a battleship, but the author rules that out. Instead, with the snotty-but-incredibly-hot secretary, and with the dean, and with his colleagues, our hero opens his mouth intending to say something nebbishy but instead comes out with something self-confident and masterful. So apparently time travel not only turns you into a hunk but also makes you outwardly self-confident even while you try o be a wimp. He sexually harasses the secretary, which charms her into going out with him, and he blackmails the dean into granting him tenure. Happy ending, fade to black.
This author needs to invest in an editor and a good proofreader. Also a thesaurus would help, after using 'some' multiple times instead of nearly, about, close to, a bit under, a little over, etc. I stopped counting after the 5th instance.

The story sounded so interesting, I kept reading hoping it would improve. There is no pace to speak of, it meanders through the depressing current life of an un-tenured physics professor, and onward to several fairly miserable trips through time.

Citing his own brilliance, and describing his life as a failure, the main character is able to become different characters once he is in another time. He is not a likable person in any time zone. I was sickened by his spineless persona in the present timeline, and further put off by his blustering and threatening persona once he donned an officer's uniform in war torn France.

His references to women are ludicrous, they are voluptuous, busty, obviously mere sex objects. I could have lived the rest of my life without having to read the sex scene near the end. It was included so there could be a surprise progeny, I get that. Maynard (the main character) could have had the experience and not described it in the salacious manner we were treated to.

I still contend this has good bones. Hopefully this author will rework it someday. And it would be nice if the ending included the story of the impact on history he promised to impart.