the author's touching upon so many great periods and so many historians are dying because they're idiots and how the hell were they trained and that's NOT RIGHT, but hell that's funny and I found myself telling myself that this has got to be one of the most comprehensively well-thought-out time travel novels I've ever read. Would you consider the audio edition of Just One Damned Thing After Another to be better than the print version?

A lot of the characters' interactions are straight out of a YA story about a high school for magical time-traveling teens, but, again, we are supposed to believe these are all intelligent adults. So, not all of the involved parties have honorable intentions as far as the Institute and its survival are concerned. I have all of the chronicals, novels and short stories and I listen to them over and over, and I have wished hard for a tv series or film. Max starts her training along with Dr Sussman, Dr Grant, Dr Rutherford, Dr Stevens, Dr Nagley and Dr Jordan, though most of her fellow trainees don't qualify.

It is not one of those one stars where you just can't get hooked by the story, and leave it after 30 pages. Leon sounded like a dirty and cold-hearted old man, which is totally at odds for how he is in the book. In Connie Willis' books, she gives us all the information we need to understand why things are happening in this future world and why they can't happen another way. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.

Markham comes across as a whiner instead of a highly intelligent and resourceful smartarse and Peterson seems to be there for comic relief only.It is much more of an immersive experience than other radio dramas I have listened to and I loved it. GenealogyBank) The same item was printed in a Globe, Arizona newspaper on March 14, 1909: [9] 1909 March 14, Daily Arizona Silver Belt, Shifting Slugs, Quote Page 2, Column 4, Globe, Arizona.

I also felt like several things that maybe were supposed to be surprises were telegraphed far ahead of time--or I'd read them before from another author. Escape Rating A+: When I picked this up, I was expecting it to be something like The Invisible Library, which was marvelous in its own way. As already mentioned, coal companies used the phrase life is just one darn thing after another in advertisements published in May 1909. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus.Don't know the original books but this stands up as a well-produced audiobook/full cast listening experience. There are several inconsistencies in plot and characterization, particularly where one character, at a key point in the story, acts in a way that seems completely out of character for him. The members of the committee] appreciated the humor of one of the committee clerks, who tacked across the door leading to Mr.

They are chaotic to the point of recklessness, irreverent and prone to inappropriate humour, they're driven by a passion to do the right thing, they stumble over the simple day-to-day aspects of life, they are emotionally inarticulate, deeply loyal, keep their heads in a crisis, move TOWARDS the gunfire and do what needs to be done to make a bad situation better and, no matter how battered or beaten they are, if someone asks how they're doing the answers is always "I'm perfectly fine. At first, I liked the narration as Hamm's voice was pleasant--but as the reading progressed everything started sounding the same. Things happen, then we're suddenly rushed past the results and the unsatisfactory explanation and we're racing on to the next event. Mary’s doesn’t have an anti-fraternization policy, but then again, it’s so secret-heavy that you can’t trust someone from the outside with the fact that TIME TRAVEL IS A THING YO. S. novelist Lilian Bell (1867-1929), is not the earliest, since the copyright of this novel was issued on 11 th October 1909—source: Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books – New Series, Volume 6, Group 1, No.

Some characters have been changed and some have been cut and some of the story has been adapted or simplified and this has frustrated some fans of the original books but I know that things have to be changed to fit other media formats. I actually started noticing her doing it in The Nothing Girl, too, which is disappointing because I really liked that book but that line drives me up the wall! The story opens with a quote attributed to the great historian Arnold Toynbee, that “History is just one damned thing after another…” What I find more interesting after having finished the book is that when Toynbee made that famous statement, he was actually quoting someone else, another historian named Elbert Hubbard. Max is once again nearly killed, though this time not by History's fickle whims; she opens the door to the linen room, which causes a massive explosion. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Quote Page 616, Chapman and Hall, London.