I were to rate this book, I'd probably give itstars, I feel bad doing that, though, so I'm just leaving it blank, It's not that it's a bad book, It's a nice little fable and has good intentions, Many will no doubt find it comforting and lifeaffirming, I just found it all a bit too obvious for my taste, Perhaps I'm just not one who feels I need a fable to remind me how precious our time on earth is, or how important it is to try to live in the moment.
I'm all too aware of it every day,
In the beginning, I kept falling asleep while reading this book, By the time Dor was compelled to action for his two souls, I was able to push through to the conclusion of the book.
I found it satisfying as it reinforces the importance of being in the moment and being grateful for those moments, whether they are good or bad.
It reinforces the value of being interdependent with those we love and care about, that we need to be open and honest and fully present for them.
I recommend this to others, but it does feel like you are reading a screenplay initially and it is hard to care about the characters when they are initially presented.
It is in their most desperate of acts to manage time for their own purpose that I can relate to them best and feel how they needed one another to move forward to their true destinies.
Quotes I liked:
P"It is never too late or too soon, It is when it is supposed to be, "
P"when hope is gone, time is punishment, "
P"Time is not something you give back, The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer, To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future, " Oh, Dor. . DorDor. You silly man. What possessed you to measure time You screwed things up for the rest of us, Now we have to BE places at certain times and DO things until the time comes when we are allowed to go home.
Why did you do this to humanity Someone should imprison you in a cave foryears and make you think about what you did, and not let you out until you are truly sorry.
Wait. that is what happened.
Dor was a curious man who livedyears in the past, He wanted to measure things, like the movement of sun the moon and the, Back then there was little to do, no xbox, cable television with eleventy hundred channels to choose from, no internetnothing.
So he took up a hobby and discovered time,
One day, the king of the land a former childhood friend came to visit Dor to ask him for his help on this tower he was working on.
The king thought all of Dors gadgets he use to measure time would help bring power to his tower, since he was building it to reach heaven, but Dor refused.
He just wasnt that interested, This did not make the king happy so he exiled Dor,
Dor and his wife, Ali, then went out on the road, leaving their children with some family, and on the way they met some strangers.
Dor wasnt too keen on them but his wife was very social, so they always shared a meal with these folks.
Apparent Ali was the touchy, feely type and would hug all these strangers, though Dor warned her not to.
Ali contracted a deadly disease and died, Dor was kind of upset,
He stormed off towards the Tower of Babel and climbed the steps, he wanted to have a word with God, he wanted more time with his wife.
God responded by sticking him in a cave where he didnt age a day, didnt need food, water or sleep foryears.
During these years, Dor got to hear all the people bitching about time, One day God decided that it was time to release Father Time yup, but with homework, Dor was to help two people, yes only two afteryears, two very unremarkable and unlikeable people.
Ehh, this was a typical Mitch Album book, You are supposed to learn a lesson from it, like in all his books, In this one you are supposed to learn not to take time for granted, not to rush it, not to wish it away and not to take into your own hands.
It was a good book, but it didnt move me like it was meant to,
It in no way made me think differently about time, Love it, hate it, want more of, or less of ittime is what it is and it doesnt give a crap about you, its going to keep moving forward whether you like it or not.
Also posted at sitelinkShelfinflicted I picked up this book with great anticipation looking forward to turning each page.
When I started reading I was frustrated with the style the author chose, I liked his other fiction stories and was expecting to find the same style amongst the pages.
Then I found a totally different style and was disappointed, But I decided to keep going and this story is so worth the effort,
The story follows Dor, Victor and Sarah, Dor lived during the early Bible times during the time of the tower of Babel being built.
Dor has an obsessive desire to figure out how long it takes for things to happen and invents ways to count and determine time.
He winds up in a cave as Father Time where he spends eternity having to listen to people pray for more time.
Victor is a wealthy man who is dying from cancer, He faces it the way he does everything else he wants to find a way to beat death.
He doesn't care what his wife thinks and is determined to find a way to live longer.
Sarah is a teenager experiencing love for the first time, Her love interest doesn't seem to be as interested in her and makes her live so intolerable that she wants to end it.
Dor arrives on the scene and shows them what comes after they have left this world.
He shows them that there is reason God limits our days, To make each one precious, What a wonderful lesson to learn, It is amazing how much time we can waste wishing for more time, Time is precious and we need to take advantage of what we are given, برای من معمولا کتاب ها این توانایی رو دارن که باعث بشن دنیای واقعی رو فراموش کنم و یادم بره تو زندگی واقعی چه اتفاقایی میفته
امروز قصدم این بود که خودم رو توی کتاب غرق کنم تا خیلی به این فکر نکنم که امروز یه سال کامل به سنم اضافه میشه
از اینکه زمان مثل برق میگذره بیزارم
و اما ارباب زمان مثل دوتا کتابی که قبلش خونده بودم موقع برداشتنش خیلی فکر نکردم من فقط میخواستم بخونم و انتخابم فوق العاده مناسب امروز بود روزی که دلم میخواست ازش فرار کنم در واقع میخواستم از زمان فرار کنم یه جورایی
منی که تو چند روز گذشته بارها شمرده بودم چند روز مونده به این روزی که دوست ندارم توی این کتاب برخوردم به زمان و شمردن روزها و فکر میکنم همون یه جمله کتاب برای من کار خودش رو کرد فکر میکنم کلا هدف این کتاب این بود که این جمله رو به من بگه
وقتی کسی عمرش را اندازه بگیرد دیگر زندگی نمیکند.
بعد خوندن این جمله از خودم پرسیدم: من چقدر عمرم رو اندازه میگیرم نکنه دارم زندگی کردن رو از دست میدم
و گاهی سوال کردن خوبه فکرای بهتری توی ذهن آدم ایجاد میشه
چقدر خوب که من این کتاب رو هفته پیش خریدم و امروز خوندم Rather quirky and unusual but still a light read, this is a story about Father Time and the man who discovered time in the first place.
I enjoyed the way it was told in short chapters which circled around three different points of view.
There was humour and there was sadness and there was a lot of philosophy about life and death, but it was never deep or hard to understand.
I have not read any of this author's other more famous books yet but I certainly will now.
This was an ideal book to read on hot Sydney summer Sunday
with the air conditioning on full blast! I love days when you just have to stay inside and read: The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom has been on my excitement list for a while now.
Such a great cover, an author I really enjoy, and a story about Father Time how could I not be excited!
What I expected and what I got were two different things, however.
Instead of getting an interesting, complex story about a fantastical creature, I got instead chopped bits of a story, tossed together like a bit of a human salad, and mixed all up.
This story is part Dor, part Victor, and part Sarah, but does not spend enough time with any one of them to make me, as a reader, feel connected to them.
I felt a bit of pity for Sarah, was highly annoyed by Victor, and just, . confused by Dor Father Time, That lack of connection took this book from something that, I was hoping, I would connect to and feel inspired by, to simply a story that, frankly, wasn't really that good.
I think where this went wrong was the way the book was formatted, first of all bold lettering making a statement before a paragraph about the character.
This constantly jarred me and made me realize I was reading a book and kept the characters from fully forming in my imagination.
Secondly, Victor and Sarah were just not very likable, Victor, an old, rich man who is dying after a full life, wants to find immortality, and Sarah, a teenager who has just been dumped by her first crush, is suicidal.
It wasn't big enough for me, not real enough, Where are the people who have dealt with huge issues and struggling against depression it's out there: the homeless, the abused.
What about those who are working for good and want to continue to live to see that succeed
I'm disappointed that The Time Keeper didn't work for me.
I'm disappointed that I spent all that time although maybe there's a lesson for me anticipating a story that did not live up to its promise.
But most of all, I'm sad that I invested my precious time in a story that felt rushed, and unwilling to commit time back to me.
review in English below
Uma escrita muito básica, quase parecendo dirigida a um público juvenil, sobre um tema supostamente profundo e filosófico mas tratado, quanto a mim, duma forma bastante superficial e previsível.
Uma desilusão, portanto, . .
A very plain writing, almost as if it were meant for young readers, about a supposedly deep and philosophical subject that was addressed, in my opinion, in a very shallow and predictable way.
A real disappointment, . . مسئله زمان عمر و جاودانگی دغدغه همیشه انسان ها بوده
ترس از مرگ و فرار از اون
و لحظه هایی که نمی خواهیم بگذرند اما می گذرند
و ما بدون این که برایشان هدفی داشته باشیم
از این که از دستمان فرار می کنند ناراحتیم
می خواهیم اندازه شان بگیریم تا بفهمیم چقدرش رفته و چقدرش مانده
همه اینها می شود چند روایت موازی از انسان هایی از دوران پیش از تاریخ تا آینده نامعلوم
که میچ آلبوم در طول این کتاب با هم پیش می برد تا آنها را در یک نقطه به هم برساند
همین مسئله باعث میشه کتاب در عین محتوای خوبش یه کم سخت خوان بشه
هر چند با این پیچیدگی اصلا باعث گیجی خواننده نمیشه و با کمی حوصله میشه هدف اصلی کتاب را دریافت
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Procure The Time Keeper Developed By Mitch Albom Displayed In Manuscript
Mitch Albom