Originally, this book was named “Bid Time Return” by Matheson. Five years later, a movie version debuted with the titled changed as it is here. I always meant to find the book with the original title, though it's far easier to find Matheson's more popular books (I Am Legend, Hell House, etc.). I do know that I've seen at least a portion of the movie – it's ending for certain. That culminate scene was not changed. It was too good to be changed, even if much of the rest was not nearly so, exceptin...

3 Stars for Somewhere in Time (audiobook) by Richard Matheson read by Scott Brick.

I’ve enjoyed some other time travel stories lately so my wife recommended this one to me. So far this is my least favorite. The main character really seemed like a stalker to me in the beginning of the book and the ending just wasn’t very satisfying.

Q: What you believe becomes your world. (c)Q: I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun. (c)OMG. I can't believe that I somehow missed reading this one before! She was waiting for him. He was looking for her. So, he transcended time (if not space) and they met. For the 2nd time. The time has limited offers only. An increadibly romantic time travel story with. admittedly, dubious mechanics of the said time tra...

The book starts out rather rough and the time-travel aspect is half-laughable and absolutely necessary for the ambiguity inherent in the novel, but DAMN...THIS IS ONE HELL OF HEA ROMANCE.Love and first sight, straining against social customs, heaving bosoms, torn hearts....Sigh.I admit I kinda fell for this. I'm not a huge romance reader, but it was soooooo damn sweet and predictable and full of satisfaction.But I also really appreciated the twist. :) I should probably re-watch the 1980 movie an...

A screenwriter with an inoperable brain tumor becomes obsessed with an actress from the turn of the century and uses hypnosis to travel back in time to meet her.I've been reading a fair bit of Richard Matheson lately and stumbled upon this at the used bookstore. After leaving my kindle at work over a long weekend, I pulled the trigger on it.Firstly, the first 33% of this book was an uphill climb. Wearing snow shoes. With a safe strapped to my back. Richard Collier finds out he has a brain tumor ...

So you want large numbers of people whom you’ve never met to hate you? Curse your name? Call you a soulless, hollowed-out shell who has never known romance? I can help you with that. All you need to do is say something bad about Somewhere in Time – either the Richard Matheson novel from 1975, or the movie adaptation from 1980 with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Go ahead. Say something bad about Somewhere in Time. I dare you. I double-dare you. I triple-dog-dare ya!Not going to take that dar...

What the heck was that I just read, and why did I read it?This is one of the sappiest, outrageously nauseating, chauvinistic, sloppily sentimental books I've read this year, and considering how much actual 19th century literature I've read this year, that's really saying something.We spend the first third of this book with the main character, Richard Collier (by the way, I always get afully suspicious when the character and the author share a name, don't you?) being maniacal about a photograph o...

A beautiful romance from the pen of a writer more famous for his horror thrillers. How far are you willing to go for the woman you love? Richard Collier has never met the woman of his dreams. And now, at thirty-six, it might be too late, as he is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. As a screenwriter he should know better than most how dreams are created out of thin air, yet in his vulnerable state of mind he is not immune to flights of fancy. While staying overnight at a luxury hotel near...

Somewhere in Richard Matheson's 1975 novel Bid Time Return is a wonderful science fiction tale dying to get out. Some would argue it did, inspiring the much loved 1980 film Somewhere In Time, which was so embraced that it became the de facto title for the novel when reprinted. This is the romantic fantasy of an author born in the 1920s and in addition to being difficult for me to relate to on that end, excited me only in the moments its hero travels through time.Unfolding in the format of a foun...

All I can say is, it is completely obvious that this book was written by a man. He spends a tedious amount of time trying to explain away his time travel premise and forgets to explain the most obvious part of his book: how could a supposedly intelligent woman fall in love with his wacko main character?Saw the movie years ago and thought it would be fun to read the book, since they are USUALLY better. What I found was a super sugary story that wasn't very moving.Richard Collier is the main chara...