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It was as if every day the woman was forced to confront the ugliness of life, and yet even so, curled up in her bed at night in the dark, she still believed it was only a regrettable figment of her imagination, a bad dream that would soon dissolve and give way to a more pleasant reality. It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left.
View all 7 comments. Nov 30, Frances rated it really liked it. Rollicking Good Fun! Until I was several chapters into this book I was beginning to wonder if I wanted to continue.
At times I groaned while reading, sometimes smiled, and often stopped to ponder certain paragraphs. It was a story of many things; imaginative, different, strange, but yet, soon became compelling enough to finish.
When I finally read the last page, I felt I had been thoroughly entertained and pleased to have read such a creative and unique book. View all 13 comments. I think this book was written just to annoy me. I am sitting here with 5 pages of notes which I made whilst reading it that detail approximately one hundred reasons why I detested it from the first page to the last and why my boyfriend was forced to read some parts aloud to me because I became physically unable to finish it without assistance But I did it.
And now I am going to have to tell you why it is awful. This isn't going to be pretty. He occasionally provides voice of God insights which persistently interferes with the story. It was utterly infuriating. When things were happening, this unexplained and un-bodied voice would come out of nowhere with such gems as, 'this part is very boring so I'll spare you the details The voice is no-one. It is just the writer. Using a shoddy plot device to conceal bad writing.
It doesn't work. Figures of speech and cliche are used constantly. Wrongly in most cases too. They are usually completely inappropriate considering the context they are used in and the phrases that are said were probably never used in Victorian times anyway. One the author loves is 'he felt a shiver down his spine' I counted 6 uses of that alone. One is too many. Metaphors and similies are also employed pretty much every single paragraph, for example, 'the immense greenhouse was as graceful as a swan poised for flight'.
They are horrible, shallow, awful people. The story kicks off with two cousins- Andrew and Charles- who are spoilt brat rich kids who whine about their parents.
Charles is basically Lord Henry from 'A Picture of Dorian Gray'; he is decadent and smarmy but without the charm, wit and charisma that Lord Henry is imbued with. Andrew is spineless, pathetic and preposterously brooding. Apparently when he leaves the house he 'gazes at the moon for several minutes' and he 'watches a rose wilt in his hands'.
Yeah those are really quotes. This is what I am dealing with. We are supposed to sympathise with these characters; people who regularly, by their own confession, go out and use women and are not ashamed in the slightest, in fact they find it highly amusing. I don't. The characters and author are too aware that they are trying to portray Victorian times. No one, while living in the time that they live in, looks around and says things like 'Ah yes I and my surroundings are an example of my time No one actually thinks like that at the time- you are submerged in your own culture and you think you are the pinnacle of civilisation; Victorians didn't think they were old-fashioned that is just us projecting and comparing our time onto theirs.
This really, really irritated me as you were never submerged in Victorian times and there is absolutely no atmosphere whatsoever.
The whole marketing of the book is centered on the Victorian aspect but it completely fails. All of the references to historical figures from the Victorian era are so forced that it is cringey to read. It feels like the author just wrote about them with Wikipedia open and used the facts he found there to structure whole chapters. There is one chapter that is basically H. G Wells' autobiography; Wells just dumps huge chunks of explanation about his life and works like, 'this author wrote this book in this year, which I then read and then decided to write my book in this year on this day.
Wells cheats on his wife because, and get this, she is a mechanical, cold, baby-making machine who is 'unsuited to pleasure', so cheating on her is the answer to solve poor H. G Well's inability to have sex with her because of her incurable and unfair 'frigidity' actual quotes. Yep he has 'solved it' by sleeping with another woman who he later leaves his wife for. His new wife, who asks visitors to tea, is described as showing 'the practical nature of her sex'.
Nothing like an offensive mass generalisation of an entire gender to keep me reading. Claire Haggerty, the main character in the middle section of the book, is described negatively as 'an impregnable fortress' and 'not of good breeding stock'. Yeah OK, the author has tried to make her seem like a liberated woman because she doesn't care for marriage and babies and is logical rather than silly, but then he is also saying she is the EXCEPTION. Most women are crazy baby-makers so let's find the one who isn't and write a book about her.
Also, in one sentence she says that marriage is 'legal prostitution', and then in the next she is talking of, 'a romantic passion to which she longed to surrender herself.
Wells's wife barely omits a 'polite sigh' when he sexes her, so he obviously needs to leave the description of Claire's enjoyment of sex out on the counter for her so she can become more 'sexually liberated' you know The problem can't be that he is rubbish in bed Yeah makes sense. Claire's sex scene is an abomination. It is a description of a low budget porn film in which the woman fakes it Claire is a virgin. She is TRICKED into losing her virginity to a man in a cheap guesthouse who she thinks is someone else and by the end of it she is a 'quivering wreck' because it is sooo pleasurable; she feels like 'a harp would when it's strings are plucked for the first time'.
She screams, she hair pulls, she is in ecstasy. Because that is what losing your virginity is like. It is tender and you have an epiphany as to how much pleasure the human body can feel. Later on in the novel the guy who she slept with, thinking he was someone else, the guy who TRICKED her to get her into bed, goes back to her and there is no explanation.
End of story. Is she angry that some guy tricked her into losing her virginity? That he got H. G Wells to write love letters for him and pretend he wrote them?
We never know because apparently it doesn't matter. Apparently true love is so magical that none of that would matter to her Women will do anything for love after all. Another thing that bothered me about it was that later on, when reflecting upon it, the man in question refers to Claire's vagina as a 'terrifying entity' and, wait for it cause this is the worst and most horrible description I have ever heard of ANYTHING EVER, 'a sucking orifice'.
Those are actually words written together in a novel that has been published. This novel goes by the whole FALSE premise that Victorian women were scared of sex and frigid and everyone was much too prim and proper to discuss it.
Just as in any society, sexuality was a huge business in the Victorian era. I hate this quote from Claire, 'In my own time, girls are brought up to repress their instincts, especially in well-to-do families like mine. Unfortunately, it is widely believed that the sole purpose of the sexual act should be procreation, and while men are allowed to express the pleasure they derive from physical contact This novel is set at the turn of the century They were seen more as ticking time bombs of lust that, once unleashed, was insatiable.
It says so on Victorian Web, which I consider to be a reliable source. So there would be nothing strange about Claire's behaviour after sex. I mean, has the author not read Dracula. Bram Stoker features in this novel yet it seems as though the author hasn't actually read it or he would know that women enjoying being penetrated, whether by fangs or penises, was not a new concept at this time.
In fact, it was everywhere. Women enjoyed sex TOO much which is why they needed to remain chaste. After sex, Claire cannot love any other man, ever, as her love for the trikster is so strong and feverish and she will kill herself if she doesn't get a letter from him.
Yep, where is your rational female character now? The author is really, really inappropriately scathing about the appearance of the so-called 'Elephant Man' Joseph Merrick. The author goes on and on about what a 'hideously deformed creature' he is and how it makes one gasp and shudder and turn away to even lay eyes on him.
I just found it really heartless and inconsiderate as there are a lot of people who have deformities and diseases which make them look different in some way and it seems appalling to write about disability in this way He was a person and should be written about as one not as some novelty in a book 8. Where is it? There is almost no dialogue at all in this almost page novel. This means that not only is is dull and tedious, it is also rubbish at characterisation and you never feel you know any of the characters in any way.
We are just TOLD that things happen but never actually see or hear them happening; there is no subtlety. We are not required to make up our own minds about characters based on evidence, but to just go along with whatever a snippet of a sentence tells us about them. One example; we are told in this chapter that Wells' wife's mother is a horrible person. We are told she reduces her daughter to 'a shivering wreck'. Do we meet this character? Is there any dialogue featuring her at all?
In this chapter there is also a 2 page plot synopsis of The Time Machine by Wells. I didn't care for it. I didn't care for it at all. After one of the characters believes he has time travelled, he describes that all he could smell was, 'singed butterflies'. The time travel. Oh dear. It goes from real to false to real to false so it's hard to write about it clearly. All I do know is that it is complete bollocks that the whole of England and the world bought a story as flimsy as the one given in this book.
So much so that they believe a tiny room is the whole of London and that there is nothing suspicious about travelling to the future in a train with blacked out windows. A good thing about this novel is that the chapter are short, so when I told myself I couldn't continue reading I set myself goals to the end of chapters which meant I could finish it. So that was good. There is a quote in this book that reads, 'his writing was infantile and verbose in equal measure, the characters were poorly drawn and the dialogue dull as dishwater.
Maybe I just didn't get it. Maybe this is a hilarious satire of Victorian novels and a pastiche that went so far over my head that it tricked me into thinking it was just terrible writing.
But in my opinion that is no excuse for such a bore of a novel as this. View all 6 comments. Jun 28, Luanne Ollivier rated it it was amazing. Do you ever start a book , get a few pages in, recognize that you are inextricably hooked already and jump for joy when you realize there are more pages left to savour?
Palma's novel The Map of Time. It started off in one of my favourite time periods - Victorian England - with an unknown narrator telling us of a young man's visit to Whitechapel in the time of Jack the Ripper - and more. But all in good time, isn't it necessary at the start of any game to place all the pieces on their respective squares first?
Of course it is, in which case let me continue setting up the board, slowly but surely Could the fourth dimension really have been discovered in ? All of Victorian England would like to believe so. Jules Verne and H.
Wells and their futuristic novels are all the rage. Wells plays a prominent role in this tale, as well as other historical figures including the Elephant Man, Henry James, Bram Stoker. Palma creates many other characters, all incredibly well drawn, leaping off the page and into my imagination with ease. The book is written in three parts, with each part approaching time travel from a slightly different angle, with the third part tying it altogether.
There is no way to pigeonhole this book into any one genre. It is incredibly imaginative, ingenious, whimsical and addictive, combining history, mystery, romance, adventure and fantasy into a page turning, clever, keep you on your toes, thought provoking tale. What would you do if you could go back in the past or see what's coming in the future?
Palma is an absolutely fantastic storyteller. I was captured from first page to last. For those who are looking for something completely different, pick up The Map of Time, releasing today. Jul 26, Cortney rated it liked it Shelves: fiction-fantasy. This book was a big disappointment to me. The cover, the synopses, the reviews all had me ready to read a book about the mysteries of time travel. Instead, set in late Victorian era London "The Map of Time" gives readers a bit of a love story, a bit of mystery, a bit of science fiction, even a bit of biography, but it fails to fully develop any of these aspects and left me feeling cheated on all fronts.
Palma does a fine job of setting the Victorian stage. Historical fiction lovers will gobble up This book was a big disappointment to me. Historical fiction lovers will gobble up references to locations, people, and current events that almost disrupt the flow of the story by being too frequent and without impetus. The writing itself is Victorian in flavor with a flowery prose and the faux pas of author intrusion, which I found distracting.
Other than that I find the book difficult to sum up or review because it's just not cohesive. Divided into three stories it relies on common characters, mainly the character of H. Wells, and the concept of time travel, to make it into one, but it just feels like the author is attempting too many things.
There are hints throughout the book of a greater discussion—a deeper meaning—but the allegory is left incomplete. References to class discrepancy, gender issues, and colonialism are present but never expounded on and leave the reader hanging.
And if I started enjoying the book in the last 50 pages I can only say that I wish the first had been so engaging. Some people will really like this book, and for a light read it isn't bad, I just can't give it a rave review. May 26, Angela rated it really liked it Shelves: amazon-vine. The Map of Time is a wonderful novel in three parts.
In the first, H. Wells assists in traveling to the past to prevent a murder. In the second, H. G Wells bridges the gap between the future and the present. In the third, H. What happens if we change history? Palma explores this question in The Map of Time , weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports listeners to a haunting setting in Victorian London for their own taste of time travel.
Palma explores this question, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting. A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells's War of the Worlds.
What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.
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