Feb 25, 2018
Lazy Sunday morning with a French vanilla latte and a new book @bibliophilicwitch
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Lazy Sunday morning with a French vanilla latte and a new book @bibliophilicwitch
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Look for our Map of Time, a projection collection related to the 3 dimensional rendering of the higher dimensional relationships between timelines or universes. Those individual components are F-Backed hyperlinks. Usually all our communications are. They essentially never appear to emanate directly from a device and always indicate related data or locations or people...
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You've fucking done it again Felix J. Palma. The sequel to The Map of the Time is fucking brilliant. And now I'm going to go read more of, The Map of the Skies.
The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
Category: Fiction with science fiction properties
Age Group: Adult
One Sentence Plot: A lot of people have ideas about time travel and how it should be but wait, there's more.
Rating: 2/5
Review:
The original novel was written in Spanish and a translation was done by Nick Caistor. Now, I try to keep in mind when reading a translated piece that there may be things that don't translate well. With this book, I think there are a lot of good ideas that surfaced. The idea of time travel and people using it to swindle others out of their money is an interesting story concept. However, the novel seemed to want to focus on H.G Wells far more than I think necessary and there were a lot of things that become repetitive.
A lot of the writing is telling and not showing. There is a part where this Inspector gets a warrant of arrest for someone who isn't even born yet. We are told about this scene instead of letting the scene play out. I think it would have been hilarious.
Also, it seems like the author was juggling a lot of plot lines that could have been better woven together.
What did I like about it? I liked the ideas. I liked the idea of a friend staging an elaborate hoax to help get someone out of depression. I liked the idea of time travel through a fourth dimension and that they can only go in one place of time. I liked the idea of a man pretending to be a hero from the future so that he can impress a girl.
To me this book had a lot of potential that it failed to act on.
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"He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence."
-Felix J. Palma, The Map of Time
THIS. DAMMIT, THIS. ALL OF THIS. ALL OF THE TIME.
"Gilliam was one of those avid readers who believed good writing was akin to icing a cake - a conviction that resulted in overblown, horribly flowery prose that was full of ridiculous verbal displays, indigestible to the reader. When Wells reached the final page he felt aesthetically nauseated. If time travel were to become the order of the day, Wells would be honor-bound to journey into the past and beat the fellow to a pulp before he was able to disgrace future literature with his creation."
-The Map of Time, Felix J. Palma
This may have just become one of my favorite literary passages of all time, if for no other reason than it has given me the phrase "aesthetically nauseated." Magnificent.
I don't know why but lately I've been DYING to hear anything at all about the third book in Felix J. Palma's Victorian Trilogy. I swear Map of Time is still my favorite book. Maybe it doesn't mean much to other people but the fact that I have actually reread that book and want to do so again is saying a LOT about how much I like that book.