Kevin Creager

This book does the impossible: it tackles sci fi topics without a hint of the usual tropes we see in pulp sci fi novels. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.

Kevin Creager wrote a book about the type of experience I'd love to have if I ever time travelled. Wally Stephens meets some good friends, learns a few important lessons, and has a computer that's able to tell him reassuring things. The guardrails on the experience made me feel like it would have been a dream to go on a time travel journey myself.

The main characters are all fun and lovable. The relationships in this book develop as organically as possible. There are several scenes that made me laugh out loud and others that made say, "awww". Mr. Creager is obviously an astute observer of human behavior. The only characters who are a bit one dimensional are the bad guys. But the book doesn't focus on them, so it's not a huge deal..

I recommend this book to everyone. If you want to feel good while reading, this is the book for you.… (más)

Time Out! by Kevin Creager is a quirky fun read, full of quirky fun self-discovery, mystery and a dash of romance all wrapped up in a quirky fun package of time travel.

Wally Stephens is feeling in a bit of a rut and fantasizes about shaking things up just a touch. Little does he know just how much his world is about to be turned inside out and upside down when he picks up the morning mail.

Wally may not get the results he thought he was after by seeking to change his life, but his wacky adventure is a fun (and quick) read and generally satisfying all the way around. There are even a few quirky fun Easter eggs thrown in for good measure.

If you like your time travel with a side of goofiness (or your goofiness with a side of time travel), you will enjoy Time Out!

Review based on Advanced Reader Copy provided through LibraryThing Early Reviewers program… (más)

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This is a book that I wish I could have stayed up and finished in one sitting. There are many twists and turns that you don't always know what's going to happen next. It was such a good book that every time I picked up the book time went by so far.

It's part time travel, part science fiction, part autobiography.

The lengths of each chapter varied but they didn't feel too long. Some chapters were only a couple of pages but I think that's good so you can put down the book and pause if you need to.

At one point the main character uses two different names and switches between them during the story which did make it a bit confusing.

The book doesn't end how you think it's going to end, which is both good and bad. It could have ended on the last chapter and that would have been a good ending but they ended it on the epilogue which confused me. So I hope there is a second book which continues where the epilogue left off.

I do have some favourite sentences or quotes from the book, I'm going to try and not spoiler anything but there may be some small spoilers (you have been warned).

“You see, you also have to have an idea of why you’re going there and what you hope to accomplish – and that has to come from you.”

"It didn’t occur to him until too late that most people don’t willingly hand their wallets over to someone they just met."

"Well, you should now be in the apartment. If not, you’re in deep trouble. If you’re in deep trouble, go immediately to Appendix A. He flipped to the link and found Appendix A. It was instructions on how to break into a house. Possibly of practical value, but not right now. He turned back."

"By now, you are probably wondering what kind of site this is. In fact, I know you are wondering that. This is your diary, sort of. Only it’s already been written out for you. By you. You see, I am you. This journal is a collection of advice, information, directions, whatever you need to survive here. Don’t ask me when you wrote this (as if you could ask me about it). I don’t know. And, if you think about it too much, your brain will hurt. All I know is that you have to do certain things and behave in certain ways in order to not change the future. And this journal is a day by day, or maybe week by week, listing of those things.
DON’T TRY TO LOOK AHEAD. That’s the number one rule. Events have to occur in the proper sequence. Don’t try to change it."

"Lori. Please stop reading. This is none of your business at this moment. Please do not be offended. He will share with you at an appropriate time. Believe me. But that time is not now. Please close this page."

"“Why don’t you just transfer it straight to …” Uh-oh, maybe that technology wasn’t available yet. “Never mind, I’ll work on that"

“There is no efficient use of time. Time uses you. You either flow with it, or you fight it, and, believe me, fighting it takes up all your time. What are you going to do with it? Stick to one time, whether it makes sense or not?”

"Most of us are trying to figure out what we’re doing next, where we’re going. You just sort of meander from one day to the next"

"Maybe you could have let me in on who was going to be president in between. No one saw that coming.”
“Would you have believed me?”
“No, I would never have believed that many people would have thought that he was a good idea. Or even an okay idea. Or even a ‘what the hell’ idea. And I don’t think I would have felt good about those winnings anyway. It would have felt like dirty money somehow, like giving somebody money to buy the worst kind of drugs."… (más)