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Title: Not bad, not GREAT
Review: This time-travel story did not grab me the way TIME AND AGAIN (Jack Finney) did. There are several intersecting plot lines centering around the main character, Josh Winkler, and some of them seem rather contrived. The method of getting to the past, by walking quickly along certain "paths" in the town, seems capricious and awkward. At least in Finney's world there is a reasonable technique (a kind of self-hypnosis coupled with deep study about the desired time period) that allows the subject to slip the bonds of current time.The fact that marital relations are lost as a result of the time travel in this novel really bothered me; it seemed to be a perversion of what was happening with the other plotlines, in which problems were solved, not created. Or perhaps my reaction just reflects how I would feel if I were to "lose" my wife in this manner.In any case, this is not a novel that I will reread.
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