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This took me a while to get into (it doesn't help that the narrator of the audiobook has both a plummy British accent and, from the sounds of it, a cold), but also because it starts very abruptly and I couldn't figure out what was happening for the first chapter or so.
But once I realized what was going on, WHOOO, BOY!
I only heard about this because it's one of two audiobooks by du Maurier that the library has, but I am frankly shocked that there isn't a movie, and that this one isn't more popul ...more
But once I realized what was going on, WHOOO, BOY!
I only heard about this because it's one of two audiobooks by du Maurier that the library has, but I am frankly shocked that there isn't a movie, and that this one isn't more popul ...more
Sep 03, 2009
El
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it was ok
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In this later du Maurier story, Dick Young is given the opportunity to live in a friend's home. In return he serves a as a guinea pig to Magnus, a biochemist who has created a liquid that allows one to mentally travel back in time. Unable to interact with people in the past, Dick's experiences with time traveling become increasingly more exciting for him as he falls in love with a woman in the 14th century. Each time returning to his own time he is more and more confused and anxious, and his beh
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One of du Maurier's best -- and most chilling! My review:
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This just didn't work for me, I was bored most of the time, I didn't care about the characters in the "present day" Cornwall, nor did I care about (or even manage to keep straight) the many characters in medieval Cornwall. I didn't understand why Dick had married Vita, he didn't seem to love her or even care about her. (Vita's presence in this book seemed to be simply to give Dick someone to lie to and avoid while he went on his druggie trips. Poor Vita!) I didn't understand why ...more
This just didn't work for me, I was bored most of the time, I didn't care about the characters in the "present day" Cornwall, nor did I care about (or even manage to keep straight) the many characters in medieval Cornwall. I didn't understand why Dick had married Vita, he didn't seem to love her or even care about her. (Vita's presence in this book seemed to be simply to give Dick someone to lie to and avoid while he went on his druggie trips. Poor Vita!) I didn't understand why ...more
While I enjoyed Dick Young's forays into the 14th Century, the time travel method was ludicrous! A potion is an interesting historical method but moving one's mind 600 years ealier while leaving your body in the current time? Can you imagine if it caught on with the masses? Since the book was written in 1969, I'm guessing LSD's mind expansion proponents were at the forefront of her idea.
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Another book I read ages ago. I remembered just fragments and had to ask for help in recalling the name. It was good but not as good as I remembered it. Still I was not disappointed.
Jul 14, 2007
Trin
marked it as to-read
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