Yup, but that movie was a bit too silly for me.ah Mark Twain, haven't seen the film in year. Was Bing Crosby the actor who travelled back?
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Yup, but that movie was a bit too silly for me.ah Mark Twain, haven't seen the film in year. Was Bing Crosby the actor who travelled back?
Reading the Time Traveller's Wife. I'm writing a term paper about time travel too-- based on personal experience & my desire to change things that happened in the past.
No wonder i didn't recognise the title. Original title was Bid Time Return. After it was made into a movie it was reprinted under the movies title, Somewhere in time, which is confusing. I simply can't understand why they must change titles all time back and forth with american and british copies or after a movie based on the book. So confusing. Suddenly you might have three copies of one book but under different titles. Why!!!!?????Mathieson's Somewhere in Time was very well done (book, not movie, though that was okay, too).
No wonder i didn't recognise the title. Original title was Bid Time Return. After it was made into a movie it was reprinted under the movies title, Somewhere in time, which is confusing. I simply can't understand why they must change titles all time back and forth with american and british copies or after a movie based on the book. So confusing. Suddenly you might have three copies of one book but under different titles. Why!!!!?????
It certainly is horrible. My copy looked like thisIn case your question wasn't rhetorical: Publishers want to sell books. When a movie does well, they want to sell more copies of the book. Republishing Bid Time Return after the movie came out wouldn't sell copies. Republishing it as Somewhere in Time did. And American and British publishers change titles because they think they know what titles will sell the most copies. It's why in the UK, the book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and in the U.S., it was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In the U.S., most people had never heard of a philosopher's stone; a philosopher is someone who studies philosophy, which has nothing to do with a philosopher's stone. So the U.S. publisher changed the name for broader appeal to U.S. buyers.
Speaking of Bid Time Return, I stumbled over this British paperback cover, which is a dreadful cover for the book.
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Also try Replay, by Ken Grimwood. It's one of the best.