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How to Stop Time CD – Livre audio, 6 juillet 2017

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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris, Tom has seen it all. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher. The only thing Tom mustn't do is fall in love... "The first rule is that you don't fall in love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind."

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Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée

10 pages
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Anglais
Éditeur

Whole Story Audio Books
Date de publication

6 juillet 2017
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14 x 2.9 x 16.6 cm
ISBN-10

1510076026
ISBN-13

978-1510076020
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Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Whole Story Audio Books; Unabridged Audiobook 10 discs édition (6 juillet 2017)
Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
CD ‏ : ‎ 10 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510076026
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510076020
Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 240 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 2.9 x 16.6 cm

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Bibi

I enjoyed it but . .

Commenté en France le 10 février 2018

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. . would have preferred a “better “ ending. The last few chapters felt rushed and not in tune with the rest of the book. The idea of some people aging much more slowly than everyone else was fascinating and the interweaving stories throughout were well researched and enjoyable to read. But I felt the end of the book came far too suddenly and that there wasn’t enough detail in parts about certain characters including what they looked like, what they wore etc.
I did, however, really enjoy reading the book and wished the story could have continued a while longer. I loved Matt Haig’s “The Radleys” and “Being Human” (again, the story finished too quickly). If only I could sit down with him and talk about his wonderful books and find out more about Tom Hazard etc.

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Magnien

Dépaysant

Commenté en France le 12 août 2017

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Très beau voyage dans le temps. Personnages attachants. Lecture captivante. On voudrait que le livre ne s arrête jamais. Comme le temps

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pann

Cool so nice and very interesting

Commenté en France le 15 février 2020

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Bien pour qui veux acquérir du vocabulaire

Commenté en France le 25 octobre 2018

Besoin pour l'école

Je n’aipas Encore eu le temps de le lire

Commenté en France le 23 mars 2019

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Quelle utilisation ? Ben pour la lecture 😉
Le format est plus large que le premier de cet auteur que j’avais commandé. Je ne l’ai pas encore lu.

Commenté en France le 16 mars 2018

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A book club choice liked by all of us. It took me a while to get into storyline but then couldn't put it down. My lasting thought was " Wow what if this could really happen".

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Les chroniques de Lee Ham

très beau

Commenté en France le 19 juin 2019

Il existe des livres qui, dès la première page, nous donnent une envie furieuse d'aller à la dernière page pour voir la fin. Et on se fait violence pour le lire normalement de la première à la dernière page. How to stop time en fait partie. Qui n'a jamais rêvé de vivre longtemps? Très longtemps? De traverser les siècles en secret? D'être multi centenaire? Comment le vivrez-vous? Figurez-vous que Tom jouit de ce privilège. De cette malédiction. Comme lui, auriez-vous la force de traverser les siècles et de revenir à votre première vie? Supporterez-vous de voir disparaître les personnes que vous aimez?
How to stop time nous fait revivre les tribulations d'un homme qui a un lourd secret. un secret qui le ronge jusqu'à la moelle. Un secret qui peut se révéler dangereux pour lui. Un secret qui lui pèse tant qu'il a envie de s'en défaire. Cependant, ce n'est pas si simple. Avec cet homme, nous empruntons les pas de l'histoire. Des réalités de diverses époques. Nous assistons à l'annihilement de nos certitudes historiques. Sur la pointe des pieds, nous le suivons dans sa recherche de sa seuls réussite. Dans la recherche du grand regret de sa vie: Sa fille Marion qu'il abandonnée.
How to stop time est un roman d'un grande tendresse. D'une grande humanité. Un romans fait de nombreux flashbacks d'un humour très fin. De souvenirs qui s'incrustent et font fi des états d'âme de Tom. Des souvenirs qui font fi de ses regrets. Des souvenirs qui s'imposent comme un pique-assiette sans vergogne. Tom poursuit ses errances au gré de ses souvenirs. Il est possible qu'il veuille échanger son sort contre celui d'un éphémère. Qu'il soit prêt à lui expliquer how to stop time.

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Très moyen

Commenté en France le 16 février 2018

Une excellente idée de départ, mais en fait on se retrouve avec un récit historique sans originalité, une intrigue médiocre et une réflexion sur le temps qui ne vole pas bien haut. Sur le même thème, lisez plutôt Tous les hommes sont mortels de Simone de Beauvoir, c'est bien meilleur !

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Emma's Biblio Treasures

A timeless classic

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 12 juin 2018

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Wow! Wow! Wow!

If ever a book deserved 5 stars it's this one. I devoured this book and struggled to tear myself away from it but the kids needed feeding, the boyfriend needs attention & I suppose I had to sleep 😒

This book was so well written that I had to keep reminding myself I was reading a work of fiction and not an autobiography. I got completely caught up in Tom and his story. The author effortlessly took the story from present day to varying times in Tom's life but it never felt confusing or strange. You totally believed it.
The voice and atmosphere of each point in history was captured vividly and I could really see Tom there doing those things. Those little details, minute touches of information about things that actually happened, made it all the more real.

I loved this book so much I was genuinely sad for it to end. I could've kept reading about Tom's life for much longer. This is one of those rare books that changes your perception, makes you think about life in a different and stays with you long after you've read it. I know this is a book I'll read many times over.

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CheeseFan

Parts I liked, others not so much

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 15 septembre 2018

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As an initial disclaimer - I gave up on this book at around the half way point. I know many people think this means I shouldn't write a review - and maybe they're right - but I think the fact that this hadn't engaged me by the half way point says something.

Parts I liked:

First - the good stuff. The historical sections were really interesting and opened up worlds I didn't know about; the part about the witch hunts and his mother were especially haunting and engaging. The premise is interesting and novel, almost like time-travel but without the narrative problems often encountered in time travel stories. It's an effective but simple concept that really makes you want to read it to find out what happens. Some of the writing is very beautiful and touching and there were parts which genuinely moved me - I found the part towards the beginning where Rose dies really heartbreaking.

The not so much parts:

Despite the good points, I often found it a chore to read. I can't really put my finger on exactly why - I just didn't really care about most of the characters (aside from what I've mentioned above). The main character in particular is exceptionally whiny. The premise is a good one but I don't think it has been executed in a very engaging way. I find with Matt Haig's writing I am often very aware of the authorial voice, which slips into ponderous/pretentious at numerous points. He is determined to tell the reader how to approach life, and he does this in quite a clunky way. Some of the lines are clearly meant to be breathtaking "oh I never thought of it like that" type lines, but I think this just takes the reader out of the story. All these added up to me giving up on the book - not really deliberately, but I just picked it up more and more infrequently and found it a chore whenever I did so, until eventually I just stopped picking it up. I like Matt Haig and I like some of his other books (in particular "Reasons to Stay Alive" which is wonderful). This just didn't do it for me, sorry.

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Georgiana89

Interesting premise, flawed execution

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 16 septembre 2018

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I love books that play around with time, whether that’s through time-travel, reincarnation or whatever. So I was quite excited at the concept of this book about extraordinarily long-lived and slow ageing people.

In parts, it was quite fun for its depictions of different historical periods, its worldbuilding around the concept of these “albatrosses” as the long-lived ones call themselves, and its meditations on what he practical and psychological effects of a life like that would be.

But I thought it was pretty flawed in several ways. Firstly, it couldn’t resist the obvious trap of having the hero participate in far too many famous historical events and meet far too many famous historical people than was remotely believable. I was much more interested – and much more able to suspend belief – when it came to scenes of him living a normal life in medieval or Tudor times.

Secondly, after centuries of forsaking love, partly to avoid being hurt, partly due to the rules of his society, it was hard to see what suddenly attracted him to his modern day love interest. It felt rather sudden and forced. And thirdly, I found both her and modern day him so over-exaggeratedly right on in their interactions with each other and with the students at their school.

Overall, this had an interesting premise which it partially delivered on, but I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Gary H.

Early history, good. Current day, not so much. More plague, less mobile phone....

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 21 juillet 2018

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Negatives first, it's to long, and feels drawn out a lot of the time. The existential, navel gazing I could have done without, all the stuff about living for today and making the most of what you have read like the worst kind of self help book. It takes on to much, I would have much preferred had the main character's story stayed in his early years, the time with his mother, or maybe later with Rose and Marion rather than ping-ponging through history. Also the name dropping, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Captain Cook, all famous names and they add very little to the story.
Positives though, I enjoyed the early years, the time of witches, witch-finders and suspicion, and the evoking of British towns and cities at various times in history. Also the little insights into how people used to think, like rotten and blackened teeth were once a sign of prosperity, as those people could afford sugary treats. But it is to long, and it did feel a tiny bit preachy at times, and the current day stuff was very plain, rather dreary at times. So not all bad, just not that great either. Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch is attached to a possible film.

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SilverfaceCosmicman

Heinlein, Sartre, Shakespeare and Python

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 13 juillet 2020

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I try to avoid blurb, reviews and other critical responses to novels before actually reading them. But I think I can presume the obvious comparisons with Heinlein's Time Enough for Love have been done. For me the similarity is closer to Stranger in a Strange Land. The feelings of alienation and imprisonment in the self, experienced by Haig’s protagonist are somehow reminiscent of the materialistic individualism of that American classic.

As could be expected of a story about a man who lives on and on as his loved ones die, there is an underlying Sartre-esque despair to the narrative, which is played with ironically by the inclusion of a French teacher as the love interest. Haig’s novel is thoroughly British, however. Self-doubt, subtle irony, Shakespeare, Tudor cottages, scenes of deprivation and poverty... Sounds like Python doesn’t it. And despite its somewhat heavyweight themes there is an edge of almost farcical satire to How to Stop Time.

As its cheeky title suggests, this is not a novel that takes itself too seriously. The prose and structure are both simple and beautiful. The characterisation is sophisticated and economical, the pace well-measured throughout. It’s a page turner from from beginning to end. A great one if you fancy something from the more Literary end of the science fiction genre.

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