Review: Time spent with Charlie
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2012
"The Hour of the Time" is a short work of fiction by author Vincent Hobbes. This was a Kindle e-book that was a 97 Kb download and was free at the time of writing this review.Some possible <spoilers> to follow...Charlie is obsessive compulsive when it comes to being on time. And on this important day, of all days, he's running a little late.An interesting story of a short journey with an unknown objective. I liked the character development in our reluctant hero...a small, friendless man who has a tendency to annoy almost everyone he meets with his talk of his time obsession.However, I have troubles with stories like this where the main character is heading towards some sort of ending of which the reader cannot possible guess or even explain once the ending in revealed. When I reached the last page, the surprise is so out of context and so unexpected, that I've felt like I've wasted my time reading this (even as short as this was).Conclusion:Hmmm, had potential but just didn't quite deliver.Felt like a chapter taken out of longer story, but hard to relate to anything before or after.As it is...3 StarsRay Nicholson