Out of Time A story of archaeology sort of edition by David LaVigne Literature Fiction eBooks
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An illegal bar in 1928.
The grand opening of the Roman Collosseum.
A British attack on Boston in 1776 that wasn’t supposed to happen.
Doctor John Campbell, an archaeology professor at a community college, has led an ordinary life, a boring life, until the purchase of an old desk at a local flea market turns out to be an extraordinary find. A desk that once belonged to one of the most brilliant and frightening minds in the history of science. Hidden inside is a device that no one except the long dead scientist has ever seen. This discovery sparks a chain of events that sends Campbell on an amazing adventure that spans centuries, but Campbell’s journey quickly becomes more than he bargained for and the consequences could have dire effects on time itself.
Out of Time A story of archaeology sort of edition by David LaVigne Literature Fiction eBooks
John Campbell is a college professor of archeology. He lives alone, is disenchanted with his life and does not have much respect for most of his students. One of his pastimes is treasure hunting at yard sales and flea markets. He finds an old desk for fifty dollars. When he takes it home to clean it up, he finds some locked drawers and compartments that he can only access by taking the desk apart. It turns out, the desk used to belong to Nikolai Tesla, one of the geniuses of the 19th century. It contains many notebooks, designs and a handheld device that turns out to be a time machine.The curiosity of the archeologist leads Campbell to visit ancient Rome first, but he also ventures to colonial America during the time of the revolution, and to Germany during the Nazi period. He discovers that a Nazi named Hans Richter also has a time machine, and he seems to have dedicated himself to changing world history so the result is that the United States of America never exist and the Nazis ended up undefeated in World War II. Campbell decides to make it his mission to stop Richter.
I love time travel stories, and this one is based on an interesting premise and a fairly exciting plot. This kept me turning the pages. I wanted to know how it would all end.
However, the writing is juvenile. The book is full of clichés and it feels like it’s written by a high school sophomore. For example, when they were in ancient Rome they “hit the taverns.” Whenever they had meals, they “washed the food down” with wine or beer. Or: “Mary was used to luxury, but this was over the top.”
The characters are not credible. The author seems to know very little about archeology. I don’t understand why he made the protagonist an archeologist. He could have been a car mechanic, a hairdresser, or a computer programmer. He is just not credible as an archeologist. Also, I could never accept that Campbell is able to speak fluent ancient Greek and Latin within just a few days of acclimating. In general, the main characters are all shallow cardboard figures doing things that don’t seem real or even possible.
The grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and spelling are atrocious. It feels like there isn’t a page where there isn’t something wrong. The author does not seem to know the difference between “threw” and “through,” “there” and “their,” “your” and “you’re,” and many other such pairs. Many sentences have missing words and sometimes the structure is so jumbled, it’s impossible to figure out what he author is trying to say. He also has trouble with plurals. For instance, he keeps writing “Nazi’s” to indicate more than one of them. The whole book reads like a hastily written first draft.
The author obviously never proof-read his own book, and he didn’t bother to ask anyone else. It does not take an expensive professional editor to find 95% of the errors. The book has some 200 pages, and I believe I could easily find 200 corrections in a casual read. With another couple of days of reading and editing his own work he could have made a huge difference in the quality of the book. As it is, the errors are distracting from the story. I only paid 99 cents for the book on Amazon, but I still feel cheated. I expected a finished work, not a first draft.
Overall, Out of Time is a neat idea for a story, but it’s so poorly done, it’s distracting. The book is simply not finished. I don’t think I’ll read any more LaVigne novels.
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Out of Time A story of archaeology sort of edition by David LaVigne Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Here is a great little fun book about adventure and time travel. Mr. Lavigne has a huge imagination and he makes good use of it. Must have been a lot of work to get so much history woven into the narrative but he did so. Humor, historical facts,love, adventure and a bit of run for your life written here. The narrative flows extremely well and the characters are people easy to like or dislike, as a villain and heros should be. I was happy that the author brought Tesla into the book, well he had to as he was the creator of the time machine! Tesla is one of the most amazing and interesting men in our history and a favorite of mine. Don’t think it would be too far a leap for him to have actually done this! I highly recommend this as a quick and enjoyable read, even if time travel isn’t your interest. You should be able to like it just for the inter action between all the characters.
An excellent and exciting story. Lets you travel through various periods of time, allowing you to realize how little Man has changed, unfortunately. I do have one huge gripe, though and it kept me from giving five stars. The editing is atrocious. Either the author can't spell or whoever transcribed it couldn't and whoever edited the final copy couldn't either. There were massive grammatical errors as well. Frankly the story was excellent. The author has spent quite a bit of time in research and the concept took time travel in some very interesting directions. The book, at least in digital form, is like a Porsche with a bad paint job. It is all Porsche until you look at it, then it is a fourth graders effort. Again well worth putting up with the incredibly diverse mistakes, as it is an EXCELLENT story!
I do want to add that, while I have read hundreds of books in my life, I have never read as poorly edited a book as this. I suspect it is a sign of the times we live in.
This is just a flat-out cool story of time travel.
The venues that the main character experience are rich with detail and excitement. From the American Colonial period through ancient Roman times, each is presented with clarity and detail unlike other books about time travel that I have read.
The story itself is unique in it's explanation of the ability to travel through time by use of a lost and forgotten invention of Nicola Tesla.
I only gave the story a rating of four stars because of it's failure to address the subject of disease vectoring through the various venues. Modern man is mostly immune to many lethal diseases but we are still carriers and would infect non-protected societies if they were exposed. Maybe I'm nit-picking here but my mind immediately went to this scenario as I was reading the book.
All-in-all though a great story.
Great story idea muddied by high-school level writing. Spelling and grammar errors abound, and they really do detract from the story. Speaking of the story, like I said, the idea is pretty solid, but the execution is a bit amateur. Characters were flat and forgettable (even the protagonist), and the action was jumbled and messy. I also don't recall a lot of archaeology happening. A good editor would do a great deal for this story. In fact, were it professionally edited and proofed, I'd probably buy a re-release version.
The story moves quickly through a bewildering assortment of different places and times. Each time in history is accompanied by varying levels of detail, and it was interesting from a historical point of view. But ... some of the changes weren't explained, coarse language cropped up in a fairly casual manner, and there wasn't much depth to the characters. Though the time travelers came from different times, they all seemed like twentieth century people. I was entertained, in the way a light snack might be enjoyed - but if you're looking for a satisfying meal or an exquisitely prepared hors d'oeuvre, you will be disappointed.
John Campbell is a college professor of archeology. He lives alone, is disenchanted with his life and does not have much respect for most of his students. One of his pastimes is treasure hunting at yard sales and flea markets. He finds an old desk for fifty dollars. When he takes it home to clean it up, he finds some locked drawers and compartments that he can only access by taking the desk apart. It turns out, the desk used to belong to Nikolai Tesla, one of the geniuses of the 19th century. It contains many notebooks, designs and a handheld device that turns out to be a time machine.
The curiosity of the archeologist leads Campbell to visit ancient Rome first, but he also ventures to colonial America during the time of the revolution, and to Germany during the Nazi period. He discovers that a Nazi named Hans Richter also has a time machine, and he seems to have dedicated himself to changing world history so the result is that the United States of America never exist and the Nazis ended up undefeated in World War II. Campbell decides to make it his mission to stop Richter.
I love time travel stories, and this one is based on an interesting premise and a fairly exciting plot. This kept me turning the pages. I wanted to know how it would all end.
However, the writing is juvenile. The book is full of clichés and it feels like it’s written by a high school sophomore. For example, when they were in ancient Rome they “hit the taverns.” Whenever they had meals, they “washed the food down” with wine or beer. Or “Mary was used to luxury, but this was over the top.”
The characters are not credible. The author seems to know very little about archeology. I don’t understand why he made the protagonist an archeologist. He could have been a car mechanic, a hairdresser, or a computer programmer. He is just not credible as an archeologist. Also, I could never accept that Campbell is able to speak fluent ancient Greek and Latin within just a few days of acclimating. In general, the main characters are all shallow cardboard figures doing things that don’t seem real or even possible.
The grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and spelling are atrocious. It feels like there isn’t a page where there isn’t something wrong. The author does not seem to know the difference between “threw” and “through,” “there” and “their,” “your” and “you’re,” and many other such pairs. Many sentences have missing words and sometimes the structure is so jumbled, it’s impossible to figure out what he author is trying to say. He also has trouble with plurals. For instance, he keeps writing “Nazi’s” to indicate more than one of them. The whole book reads like a hastily written first draft.
The author obviously never proof-read his own book, and he didn’t bother to ask anyone else. It does not take an expensive professional editor to find 95% of the errors. The book has some 200 pages, and I believe I could easily find 200 corrections in a casual read. With another couple of days of reading and editing his own work he could have made a huge difference in the quality of the book. As it is, the errors are distracting from the story. I only paid 99 cents for the book on , but I still feel cheated. I expected a finished work, not a first draft.
Overall, Out of Time is a neat idea for a story, but it’s so poorly done, it’s distracting. The book is simply not finished. I don’t think I’ll read any more LaVigne novels.
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