Title: confused political polemic disguised as time travel
Product review: I'm a fan of time travel from way back. Finney's novels, Matheson's Bid Time Return, Allen Appel's books, and others. Time on My Hands starts well, but bludgeons you with anti-Reagan propaganda. I'm not the former president's biggest supporter, but I thought Forrest Gump had wandered into the plot. The time travel aspects are really confused, as Delacorte's understanding of time travel has several holes in logic. The ending is a complete cop-out, almost as if he had to meet a deadline. Its questions on the hazards of time travel affecting one's existence aren't well-thought out at all. You'd be better off re-reading Time and Again, or something like Ken Grimwood's Replay, Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Back, or even Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, which has elements of time travel. But skip this one and travel to anything else.
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