Doomsday Book
Ratings158
Average rating3.8
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Ratings158
Average rating3.8
The Hugo-winning kickoff to Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford Time Travel universe.
Kivrin knows everything about the Middle Ages - she's read all the books. She knows it's dangerous: cutthroats in the woods, witch hunts, cholera, and millions dying in the plague. For a young historian, it's fascinating.
When Kivrin's tutors in Oxford's history lab finally agree to send her on an on-site study trip, she jumps at the chance to observe medieval life first-hand. But a crisis that strangely links the past and future leaves her stranded in the most deadly and terrifying era in human history, face to face with the heart-rending reality behind the statistics. And while she fights for her own life, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope in this dark time.
Five years in the writing, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the timeless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
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4 primary books5 released booksOxford Time Travel is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Connie Willis.
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Got mixed feeling regarding the book. The protagonist experience during the medieval age was riveting. It got you involved with the characters, and imagining what it must have been like was at times heart wrenching. Unforunately the “present” story line in which the pandemic supposedly took place was utterly annoying to read, for me at least.
Another fabulous time travel book. This one takes place in the future (after time travel has been perfected), and at the onset of the Plague in England. A history student ends up in the wrong time, and then can't get back to her present.
A book about the people who sent a girl to the past. What are their days like? What do they wear? Who are their relatives? What do they think about each other, and what might be happening to the girl they sent to the Dark Ages?
- slow paced
- slow old narrator
- overly descriptive to the smallest details
- repetitive
- british accent
- the male voices were not good
- the reviews did not encourage me to continue going
Read 2:05/26:22 8%
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