How to Stop Time

A Novel

paperback, 352 pages

Published June 11, 2019 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-525-52289-8
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4 stars (27 reviews)

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Review of 'How To Stop Time' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Un joli roman de Matt Haig, un auteur que j'ai découvert récemment et dont j'apprécie décidément beaucoup les oeuvres, qu'elles soient de fiction ou non.

Dans ce roman, Matt Haig nous propose de suivre la longue vie de Tom, son protagoniste qui présente une particularité étonnante : il vieillit beaucoup plus lentement que la normale. Né au XVIe siècle, il se présente de nos jours comme un jeune quadragénaire. Bien sûr, son âge véritable doit rester un secret, et il doit bouger tous les huit ans pour se faire oublier et recommencer une nouvelle vie loin de la précédente.

Je ne vais pas en dire plus pour ne pas vous divulgâcher ce roman, mais c'est un récit dans le temps qui vaut le coup d'être lu. C'est intéressant, palpitant par moments, et parfois touchant. Une réussite, à nouveau, pour Matt Haig.

Review of 'How to Stop Time' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

I liked some of the themes of this book: about time and living in the present and the power of love to make you and change you. However, the sections of the story where Tom is hanging out with William Shakespeare, drinking cocktails with F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, or sailing around the Pacific with Captain Cook took the edge off for me. If Tom is meant to move on all the time to avoid detection, why is he always with these people at their height of their celebrity and fame? I can understand that Matt Haig wanted to add these historical characters in for colour, but it just doesn't work with the storyline for me.

Review of 'How to Stop Time' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Poignant, well-written, neat prose in that it's reflective and contemplative without being a drone.

This book is going to stay with me for a while because of how it unpacks questions of time, uncertainty, and living with fear and loss.

Good chunks of profundity and beautifully written.

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." (Montaigne)

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