My pick would have to be the A Whole Nother Story trilogy, in which (spoiler warning) you can only travel back in time. But because time is in a loop of sorts, if you go before the beginning of time, you will be at the end of time. From there you can go back to any time you want to. And time paradoxes cannot be produced. Plus, your memories from the previous timeline exist as well as the memories from the new one.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut jr. also my favorite novel of all time.
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“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” — Kurt Vonnegut
Why is Slaughterhouse-Five being banned in some places? What is supposedly the ‘unacceptable’ content it contains?
If kids learn that war is hell and you’ll come back from it mentally unstable and live like that for the rest of your days then military recruitment guys will have a harder time getting high school kids to sell their souls to the war machine.
I really need to read this dont I?
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Never read it. Googled it now. Very short book. Will read. Thanks.
You are a person of excellent taste.
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So it goes.
And so will you soon I suppose 🎶
The only time it is okay to laugh at the firebombing of Dresden.
The only time it is okay to laugh at the firebombing of Dresden.
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Hold up, there was TIME TRAVEL in that?? Frick, there are downsides to reading books when you are way too young to be reading them… Guess it will have to go on the “must re-read this as an adult” list!
Yeah, the war story is told chronologically but he keeps jumping around to different points in his life. There a long (and cool) but about how the aliens who take him see all of time at once and live in all of it simultaneously (they are responsible for the end of the universe too). They say our point of view is like being strapped onto a train car, traveling parallel to some mountains with a metal case around our head and our very long, narrow tube coming out of it that we can see down. Our view of time is extremely limited and narrow, and only progresses in one direction.
The book says something about being “unstuck in time”. I interpret that as the main character has severe PTSD and uncontrollable flashbacks. Other people interpret it as time travel.
Didn’t take long to find this mentioned. Well done.
All this happened, more or less.
This was the worst for me. It’s the only book that I couldn’t finish. It was recommended by someone and I couldn’t understand what was going on.
Came here to say this. The Tralfamadorian outlook gives me a lot of comfort when I have my quarterly existential crisis.
Only quarterly? Please advise what steps to take to reduce mine to quarterly
Yeah, I don’t think it’s time travel. I think the “unstuck in time” is a metaphor for his PTSD flashes.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe not my favorite time travel in a book, but definitely my favorite book with time travel.