What do you think?
Rate this book
Time Travel Adventures of the 1800 Club #1
Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club
The Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club is a 21st Century haven for people seeking to escape New York City’s frantic pace. Dressed in clothes their ancestors might have worn during the 1800s, members enjoy foods of the period and read periodicals featuring news of a particular date in 1865. However, the 1800 Club also has an astounding secret . . . Time Travel. Members travel back in time nudging famous persons and key events just enough to ensure history unfolds, as it should. Guardians-of-the-future, who send robotic probes back through the ages, discover that, at critical time-junctures, pivotal figures stray from vital tasks and actions. Then an 1800 Club member is sent back to guarantee that events get back on track. The 1800 Club’s members aid Lincoln, Roosevelt, Bat Masterson, Mark Twain and many others. Without subtle interventions by these unknown agents, the famous might have been only footnotes, rather than giants of history
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 23, 2011
97 people are currently reading
321 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 35 reviews
July 30, 2017
Wow! This was sooooo good, I never thought I would love the story like that. Okay, I am normally a fan of time-traveling especially the traveling done with the TARDIS, but I can also know when the magic isn't there and believe me the magic is definitely part of the 1800 Club. About the story: the 1800 Club is a place where present-day people meet and pretend they are in the 1860s, but it's also the base for missions in the past helping to put right what went wrong with history. The first book which is free, so you have no reason not to read it, has a mission with Abraham Lincoln and another with Teddy Roosevelt/Bat Masterson (had to look up Bat on Wikipedia, never heard of him before); both stories were really well constructed, had enough history to be believable and enough adventure to be entertaining. I am so glad the other books are very, very affordable; I couldn't imagine not reading them.
August 16, 2018
Alas. I anticipated reading this with nearly bated breath as it moved up in my queue. The premise is fascinating and appealed to the historian in me. Furthermore, as a historical reenactor I strive for accuracy in garb and speech so the strict adherence by the 1800 club to historical accuracy in speech and vocabulary to the point of chucking out one of its members for violating the language rule excited me. So here's the clinker, if you write a time travel book about a club with rigid language rules you bloody well better get it right yourself when you put words in the mouth of your 1860's characters. Let even the hint of 20-21st Century vocabulary slip in and the whole kit and caboodle spins sideways. Don't show me the penny! Too bad. It could have been really good.
July 24, 2014
Other reviews have covered this book's failings. The dialogue is flat, as are the characters. Everything just falls into place with no difficulty whatsoever. The main character wants to experience everything just as the people in the 1800s did--as long as he has his aspirin, toothpaste, etc. As someone pointed out, if the people from the future could travel in time, why couldn't they come up with a way to deal with the air instead of the round about way of dealing with surrogates. I love history and have no desire to read the others.
August 9, 2013
Will be reading the rest of the series. love the idea of of mixing time travel with history. makes me research the subject. this author was able to write so well that I felt the dust of the old west.
August 18, 2013
I love time travel. Probably my favorite genre. This book had a great idea but no real story plot or conflict. If I didn't like time travel so much I probably would have given it one star. Given out free on Amazon so you will buy all the sequels.....not going to happen. this time.
September 28, 2019
I so wanted to enjoy this book and the rest that followed in the series. But I just couldn’t. As a lover of history, sci-fi, and time travel books, I think the premise for this series is just fantastic. A club where the members dress in typical 1800 clothing and must remain in character the entire time they are there. And what most of them do not know is that the club is a front for time travel. Where someone is sent back in time to help fix something that went wrong in the original timeline. Reminds me a bit Quantum Leap, except this book covers major events. The first one being that Lincoln was not able to deliver the Gettysburg address and someone must go back to the 1860s and make sure it is given.
But after reading this I just can’t get on board. I think the best way to describe my thoughts would be, ‘a lack of depth’. As a history buff, especially of the civil war era, I was excited to read the authors take on what he was seeing. The carriage ride through Washington DC, the appearance and entry into the White House, the detail of meeting and talking with Lincoln for 30 minutes, the train ride to Gettysburg, the interaction with the soldiers and General Grant, all of this should have been covered in great detail. Yet that entire part of the story amounted to maybe 20 pages.
Being able to walk the streets of this country in the 1860s would have been amazing for someone who was part of the 1800 club. Each mission could easily have been one book (versus multiple missions) and could have been twice as long. it needed more history.
A great attempt but not enough detail and character development.
But after reading this I just can’t get on board. I think the best way to describe my thoughts would be, ‘a lack of depth’. As a history buff, especially of the civil war era, I was excited to read the authors take on what he was seeing. The carriage ride through Washington DC, the appearance and entry into the White House, the detail of meeting and talking with Lincoln for 30 minutes, the train ride to Gettysburg, the interaction with the soldiers and General Grant, all of this should have been covered in great detail. Yet that entire part of the story amounted to maybe 20 pages.
Being able to walk the streets of this country in the 1860s would have been amazing for someone who was part of the 1800 club. Each mission could easily have been one book (versus multiple missions) and could have been twice as long. it needed more history.
A great attempt but not enough detail and character development.
July 29, 2021
~It was okay
~Time Travel is a very complex subject to write about…different authors have established certain rules or guidelines for their travelers…and there is no uniformity. That should be okay, after all this genre is fictional.
~However, in this first book in a long series, everything is just so easy, everything works out predictable and perfectly. I guess that I am not a big fan of the name-dropping sort of story…oh, what famous person shall we have our main character rescue today?
~The book was really two short stories, loosely held together by the main character and the secret society of time travelers appearing in both stories.
~It was an okay read…I enjoyed it for wat it was, a very light story…I have read several other books dealing with Time Travel that were more suspenseful. I think that is part of what was lacking…mystery, challenge, suspense…it was too simple. I prob’ly won’t be inclined to continue on to the next book in the series.
~Time Travel is a very complex subject to write about…different authors have established certain rules or guidelines for their travelers…and there is no uniformity. That should be okay, after all this genre is fictional.
~However, in this first book in a long series, everything is just so easy, everything works out predictable and perfectly. I guess that I am not a big fan of the name-dropping sort of story…oh, what famous person shall we have our main character rescue today?
~The book was really two short stories, loosely held together by the main character and the secret society of time travelers appearing in both stories.
~It was an okay read…I enjoyed it for wat it was, a very light story…I have read several other books dealing with Time Travel that were more suspenseful. I think that is part of what was lacking…mystery, challenge, suspense…it was too simple. I prob’ly won’t be inclined to continue on to the next book in the series.
September 7, 2020
I've read all of the books in this series and read the news ones as soon as I see they are available. I love the mix of history with modernity. The author seems to have a very expansive knowledge of the various time periods in which the books are set... not just people and events, but the little things like environment and out of the way places.
The characters are well developed, and the plots always have some dips, hills and turns to keep them interesting.
Absolutely recommend.
The characters are well developed, and the plots always have some dips, hills and turns to keep them interesting.
Absolutely recommend.
May 12, 2018
Great historical book
This book stayed on track. It was very interesting with believable characters. I always wanted to be able to go back in time; that is until I began reading historical fiction. These novels have brought the 1800's smells and city life to mind. If you love historical fiction, you will love these books.
This book stayed on track. It was very interesting with believable characters. I always wanted to be able to go back in time; that is until I began reading historical fiction. These novels have brought the 1800's smells and city life to mind. If you love historical fiction, you will love these books.
July 2, 2021
A very interesting idea handed really well. The appearance of the book and some of the writing gives the impression of a self published work but it was still very readable. Enjoyed it and looking forward to the next in the series.
June 11, 2017
I love time travel books, while I found this one okay it just didn't have enough depth to it, found it to quick and shallow.
November 5, 2017
An intriguing take on time travel. Some of the dialog seemed too friendly too fast but overall it’s a great story idea. I’m interested to see what happens next. I love the way this first book ended.
September 25, 2018
2013, 3.5
February 25, 2019
This was thoroughly enjoyable! The concept was great and the time travel made sense. I love the idea of the 1800 Club.
October 10, 2019
This is first of 17 books with another being written. Each book will feature two adventures. The history and descriptions are thoroughly researched and make for addictive reading.
February 19, 2016
I enjoyed the Time Travel Adventures of the 1800 Club, Book I. I have enjoyed time travel books for years because they suggest all kinds of possibilities. This book was told from the perspective of a time traveler, Bill Scott, who is the president of the 1800 Club. The 1800 Club had links not only to the past, but also to the future, which was interesting. The book didn't relate any more than the basic manner of time travel. In other time travel books there is always some involved process that causes the traveler to meet certain criteria to return to their own time, and they almost always have difficulty achieving the criteria. This book had a location that was the time portal, so they simply left from and returned to the location. The traveler was always prepared for the trip. He had clothing, money and historical information allowing him to fit in. The objective of the time travel was always to give historical figures a nudge so history would happen as it should. This first book in the series involved Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, and Bat Masterson learning to be a quick draw expert. The specifics of these events were under the control of the traveler. Bill Scott at times had help from others who were let in on the “secret” of time travel. I look forward to reading future books in the series to see who next will need a nudge, and how the time traveler will accomplish the goal.
May 27, 2014
Oh, if time travel was so enjoyable, then history would never be quite the same.
Take a moment and think where and when in the past you would like to exist. The 1930's? How about being a gunslinger in 1875? The premise of this introductory story asks the reader to imagine the possibilities of time travel with a specific purpose--that one's presence and actions back in time can and will change the course of future events to match events as recorded in history books. An intriguing idea, no?
As president of the 1800 Club in present day New York Bill Scott has a duel role. He hosts dinners for an exclusive group of history buffs that dine nightly in a historic brownstone house. Not only do the 1800 Club members dress and act from that period, they also must "speak in club time", that is use their research and knowledge to converse only as a citizen in the 1800's would respond. But, for President Scott, another intrigue is his secret to bear. Scott has the duty, most pleasant, of traveling back in time to correct for "errors" that would change history--and not for the better. Scott must involve himself with President Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wyatt Earp in ways that will make these historical figures perform what is expected of them, as we have come to expect of them. A rollicking good read.
Take a moment and think where and when in the past you would like to exist. The 1930's? How about being a gunslinger in 1875? The premise of this introductory story asks the reader to imagine the possibilities of time travel with a specific purpose--that one's presence and actions back in time can and will change the course of future events to match events as recorded in history books. An intriguing idea, no?
As president of the 1800 Club in present day New York Bill Scott has a duel role. He hosts dinners for an exclusive group of history buffs that dine nightly in a historic brownstone house. Not only do the 1800 Club members dress and act from that period, they also must "speak in club time", that is use their research and knowledge to converse only as a citizen in the 1800's would respond. But, for President Scott, another intrigue is his secret to bear. Scott has the duty, most pleasant, of traveling back in time to correct for "errors" that would change history--and not for the better. Scott must involve himself with President Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wyatt Earp in ways that will make these historical figures perform what is expected of them, as we have come to expect of them. A rollicking good read.
May 16, 2015
A little more thought would have gone a long way
The U.S. Navy SEALs are a fine bunch of special operations warriors. I guess that's why they seem to be featured as the hero/protagonist in so many books and movies. My problem with that, as is the case with this story, very little of the commando skills that your typical SEAL would have are called into play. In fact, our hero declines to teach basic pistol shooting skills, something that any SEAL is more than capable of doing.
You would think that an organization dedicated to preserving a time line would frown on little things like saving President Lincoln from assassination or dropping someone off to live out her life in the past.
The good stuff outweighs the criticism though. The story is technically well written. The author understands how to use punctuation and grammar. The story benefits greatly from all of the research that went into it.
The story is entertaining, and I liked it.
The U.S. Navy SEALs are a fine bunch of special operations warriors. I guess that's why they seem to be featured as the hero/protagonist in so many books and movies. My problem with that, as is the case with this story, very little of the commando skills that your typical SEAL would have are called into play. In fact, our hero declines to teach basic pistol shooting skills, something that any SEAL is more than capable of doing.
You would think that an organization dedicated to preserving a time line would frown on little things like saving President Lincoln from assassination or dropping someone off to live out her life in the past.
The good stuff outweighs the criticism though. The story is technically well written. The author understands how to use punctuation and grammar. The story benefits greatly from all of the research that went into it.
The story is entertaining, and I liked it.
June 18, 2013
I enjoyed the stories even though the concept is farfetched. I enjoy history and time travel stories, and these light stories were nice to read. The author needs an editor and needs to do a little more research at times, but I was entertained. This review covers all nine volumes in this series to date. (The concept: How can a glitch in time not be permanent? The stories start with a group in the future finding incidents that don't conform to their history books. The 1800 club has to set things right. But how could historical characters not make the decisions they really made? Nevertheless, I suspended disbelief and enjoyed the stories.)
March 30, 2014
I love time travel stories, so when I got a free one on the Kindle bookstore, i thought, why not? The story was good, but it read a bit like a soap opera, where they fill you in every day in case you missed the last episode so you won't be lost. I thought there was a lot of repetition throughout. Otherwise, a decent, fast paced story but ended abruptly. Seems like maybe it was meant for YA, which I didn't realize going in.
Not sure if I'll pick up any of the rest of the series, but maybe i will buy a few and load them onto my Kindle to have when I find myself at the end of a book with nothing to read.
Not sure if I'll pick up any of the rest of the series, but maybe i will buy a few and load them onto my Kindle to have when I find myself at the end of a book with nothing to read.
February 10, 2016
The Flaw in the ointment
I generally enjoy time travel books, and there was a good deal to enjoy about this one. However, one thing gave me trouble--the basic concept behind the book. If the ideal future did exist, it would have had to mean that nothing had gone wrong in its past. But suppose the future was dystopian, and a group of idealistic people thought of a way to fix it through time travel to alter the past, first creating a functional 2011 to act as a fulcrum for interventions even further in the past. For me, that would have been more logical.
I generally enjoy time travel books, and there was a good deal to enjoy about this one. However, one thing gave me trouble--the basic concept behind the book. If the ideal future did exist, it would have had to mean that nothing had gone wrong in its past. But suppose the future was dystopian, and a group of idealistic people thought of a way to fix it through time travel to alter the past, first creating a functional 2011 to act as a fulcrum for interventions even further in the past. For me, that would have been more logical.
October 7, 2015
I came across Book I of Time Travel Adventures of the 1800 Club on the Kobo store for free. The description caught my interest as it reminded me of one of my favorite novels Time and Again by Jack Finney. It even made reference to that novel, which was a pleasant surprise. I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of historical fiction and time travel. I believe that purchasing the future installments of this series will be worth it and I look forward to reading them.
August 21, 2014
Ok and succinct, which is something such works often fail to be. Also, there is a nice conceit at the end. The only drawback is the myopic Americanism. Some of the fear of changing the timelines is about America no longer being no.1 nation and assuming Japan would be. This is disappointingly nationalistic and possibly a bit racist too.
I might just read some other books in this series to see if they improve or decline. It could go either way at this point.
I might just read some other books in this series to see if they improve or decline. It could go either way at this point.
August 5, 2022
Love this series! I have read all 24 of them! These Time travel Adventures of the 1800 Club would make a fantastic television series for a streaming service! Maybe, hopefully, one of them will see what a goldmine a regular series would be for them! I'd be one of the first to watch it! I sure hope there are more stories to come in the future!
March 8, 2013
I love time travel books, and this story is a great find! It is well told and pulls you right into history in a fun and entertaining way. I'm glad the author has continued the series as promised. Cant wait to see what (or when) happens next!
January 3, 2014
This book includes time-travel encounters with Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bat Masterson. It's well researched and flows right along. However, I'm not inclined to read more in this series right away, maybe later.
March 9, 2013
Good, quiet book with solid, but unpretentious knowledge of history. I read the first for free, and went on to buy the second one.
August 31, 2013
This book was good for a free book but I didn't enjoy it enough to continue on with the rest of the series. So many books, so little time..
May 20, 2014
loved it can't wait to read the rest of the series
January 30, 2015
Great Read!!!
This author takes a great idea and writes about it! I am looking forward to reading more stories from the "1800 Club". Highly recommended!
This author takes a great idea and writes about it! I am looking forward to reading more stories from the "1800 Club". Highly recommended!
Displaying 1 - 30 of 35 reviews