To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) in Beyond Reality

Jan 21, 2008 Sandi rated it really liked it

Shelves: funny-stuff, 2009, sci-fi

I read To Say Nothing of the Dog about ten years ago and loved it, but I remembered so little about it. I was delighted to meet Connie Willis at the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and get a signed copy. It turns out that the book is just as entertaining as I remember and quite a bit more complex. I had remembered the frenetic search for the bishop's bird stump and that it was really quite ugly. I had forgotten all the explanations of how the net worked and how things all worked out. I ...more

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May 20, 2011 Adrienne rated it really liked it

Shelves: first-person, science-fiction, borrowed, historical, time-travel

Yay! A fun little book with time travel, saving the universe, and bumbling researchers. Feels kind of like my life, sometimes, but without the time travel and universe-saving. So, really, just the bumbling research part.

This book was certainly funnier than Doomsday Book; there were definitely a few lines that made me laugh out loud. (It took me maybe three quarters of the way in to figure out what a bird stump actually was.) However, it didn't suck me in as much as Doomsday Book because I didn't ...more

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Apr 24, 2008 Lisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: from-the-public-library

I've now read three books by Connie Willis and they've all left me feeling a little breathless, like I was hurtling headlong through the book. The characters are constantly trying to figure out the central mystery, solve the enigma, and consequently rush around all the time. Despite feeling like I was running downhill, To Say Nothing of the Dog was highly entertaining, a comedy of errors with time travelers in 1888 Victorian England (mostly). The characters are memorable and human. The book is t ...more

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May 10, 2012 Christine rated it did not like it

Shelves: abandoned

I really couldn't get into this book with all the good books I have waiting ...more

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Mar 08, 2014 Christine H rated it really liked it

Shelves: comfort-reading, funny

This is a very amusing book, especially for those who have read Three Men in A Boat. I think Jerome leaves Willis in the dust for outright belly laughs, but this book did have me smiling a lot.

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