Review: Enjoyable But Nothing Really New
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
This one takes a very long time to get going. I mean, from the get go, we know that the protagonist is going find himself in ancient Egypt in this time travel tale but gee, we muddle around for what seems 20% of the book until we get there.The problem with this one isn't in anything specific other than it's a solid, decently written and edited story you've read before if you have any interest in this genre. He goes there. Fortuitous circumstances allow him, with just the correct tools he's brought with him from our time, to do some wondrous (for the old timers) acts. This gets the attention of the ruler....and well, we go from there. Meanwhile, another party of moderns finds the going a bit rougher.As far as I know the structure of this book was an original with Mark Twain, but gee, by now, it's been done over and over. There is nothing wrong with time travel books which not only can amuse, but can act as history lessons. This book is strong when it comes to that - life in ancient Egypt, but nothing special regarding the moderns' intrusion there. In that, it's more respectful than Twain was. He tended to regard the mythical Arthurian ancients as clownish bozos.Anyway, a good read for a slight intro into ancient Egypt, but just so so for the time travel adventure.