From Time to Time

By: Jack Finney

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again.

Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.

Too much space filler. But has some really good parts too

After the first book, I was very interested to see how this one would go. I liked the first one and hoped the sequel did not disappoint as they usually do. Well in the first few hours the book was amazing. Jack Finney really writes about time travel on par with Back to the future. But then unfortunately the book did the same thing that he first book did only to an almost comical length. I would say chapters 14-19 can just be omitted all together. Nothing pertaining to the book is in them. Just unrelated information about random things. The first book had some of that but this book took it to a whole new level. The only reason I stayed with it is because I know that there will be a punch line in the end. Boy did it take forever to get there though.
I feel that too much time was wasted on that part of the book. The last few chapters tell a great story but the whole book is wrapped up in the final chapter and really in the last 5 minutes. It leaves you with a sense of being cheated because you stayed with the book babbling for hours only to have punch line be about 5 minutes long.
I wish he spent as much time on the specifics of the last few hours as he did on the specifics of the middle where I almost left the book.
The reader did a great job. I would listen to more of his reads.
If there was another sequel to this book, I would NOT read it. Not after this one. Too much twaddle.

great book

great book I enjoyed listening to it as much as the 1st one in the series

The Fate of a Sequel

Ever have the feeling when reading a book that you must have skipped a page (or two, or three… or ten) because the story suddenly makes NO SENSE?

This is the sensation I had throughout most of this book. I can’t tell you with any certainty if it’s the story jumping around or if it’s my attention fading in and out but I was clearly not as riveted to this book as I was to Book 1! ("Time and Again" - Excellent!!) I think I missed a few crucial threads early on.

It’s the fate of a sequel I guess; the better the predecessor, the higher the standards for the following instalments.

It had the potential to be better.

Did the author lose interest or was the book finished by another author who lost the vision?

A good sequel

Not quite as good as the first book, "Time and Time Again", but a nice sequel wrapping up the plot arc. I do like Si. i wish there was a book from the point of view of "the Jadda Girl".