Book name: The time keeper
Genre: Young Adult- Science Fiction
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Publishing Date: September 4th 2012
My Rating: ★★★★★
Goodready Summary
In this fable, the first man on earth to count the hours becomes Father Time.
The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
He returns to our world - now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began - and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.
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Goodready Summary
In this fable, the first man on earth to count the hours becomes Father Time.
The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
He returns to our world - now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began - and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.
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My Review
In the beginning things didn't make much sense to me but as I
continued reading they started to and the story gets woven so skillfully that its one of my favorites now. It is a short book and you flip through the pages so fast that you won't even know when you reach the end.
The
writing style of Mitch Albom always catches my fascination. I've also read ‘the
5 people you meet in heaven’ and fell in love with the book. If someone asks me
about that book only one word comes to mind to describe it and that is-
beautiful. It was beautiful in a way beyond words. I feel the same about this
book too. It is one of those books which you close and it makes you wonder, it
made me wonder about time, misery, how we all are unsatisfied and the dread for
more.
The sentences are short and the language is very easy. The ending
notes of each chapter and the small sentences in bold just added to the beauty
of this piece of art.
This book makes you wonder what I is you are doing with your
life. It is not a philosophical story though. The characters are based in our
world only and we have an interaction with three people.
One who is as old as time- Father Time himself
An ordinary, what now-a-days will be called, an average girl,
wanting to end her life
A powerful and rich businessman dreaming about another
lifetime
Normally these three wouldn't have met at all in their lives
if it wasn't for one thing that connected them in the most strange ways- Time.
I would recommend this magical tale to everyone without any
exception of age or taste in reading. This book will be appealing to all and
can change at least something in those who read it, forever.
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