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Time Flying: A Time Traveler's Memoir
A brand new love story / thriller from Dan Garmen... Rich Girrard is happily married, a father, relatively well adjusted and owns half of a very successful tech company. Like most people approaching 50 years old, he had a few regrets, things he'd done, things he wished he hadn't. When Rich finds himself again living his life in the 1970s, fully aware that he's doing it for the second time, he discovers the process is far more complicated than he first thought, and struggles to change the things in his past he needs to, while trying to remain the man his family will recognize when he returns to them. Dan Garmen's debut novel Time Flying is a story of time travel, military action and a love story spanning thirty years and two lifetimes.
- GenresTime TravelFiction
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 9, 2012
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About the author
Dan Garmen
5 books2 followersDan Garmen, born and raised in the midwest, now resides in San Diego, California.
Dan Garmen always wanted to be a writer, carrying with him from an early age, an intense desire to create the same kind of books that stayed with him long after he finished reading them.
A thirty year career in the media, on-air in television and radio, paid the bills until the day came when he could no longer put off living the life he always wanted, as a writer.
Garmen, his wife and son, live in Southern California, and when not writing or riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Dan's listening to music, much of it by friends he picked up over the years in radio.
Garmen's next novel, "1% Dead" is a thriller, due out in 2013.
Dan Garmen always wanted to be a writer, carrying with him from an early age, an intense desire to create the same kind of books that stayed with him long after he finished reading them.
A thirty year career in the media, on-air in television and radio, paid the bills until the day came when he could no longer put off living the life he always wanted, as a writer.
Garmen, his wife and son, live in Southern California, and when not writing or riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Dan's listening to music, much of it by friends he picked up over the years in radio.
Garmen's next novel, "1% Dead" is a thriller, due out in 2013.
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December 20, 2023
Awesome story, terrible editing!
The plot and storyline captivated me just enough more than the frustrating editing errors. I also didn't realize it was part one of two, so now I have to decide if I want to buy part two. I hope the editing is cleaned up in that one ...
The plot and storyline captivated me just enough more than the frustrating editing errors. I also didn't realize it was part one of two, so now I have to decide if I want to buy part two. I hope the editing is cleaned up in that one ...
July 20, 2018
Would have rated it higher but the editing was absolutely horrible!
July 25, 2013
This is a well-done book, particularly for a first novel. Though there are some continuity problems with the time travel (which we'll let you discover for yourself), the plot and sub-plots are engaging enough to tell a great story. It would make a great time travel movie and every few years Hollywood needs to toss one out for the American imagination.
As a first novel, it is a bit sparse in details at some key moments but if the book doesn't lose interest for you in the first 20 pages, it's a good tale. Also, at some points characters are tossed in almost as if they're a product placement, never appearing again in the story, which is another rookie mistake. Finally, don't expect a resolution of the the time-traveler's conundrum. As in some other fictional accounts of time travel, this one leaves the reader in the middle of a "to be continued" -- instead of ending the tale neatly when the traveler gets back home.
As a first novel, it is a bit sparse in details at some key moments but if the book doesn't lose interest for you in the first 20 pages, it's a good tale. Also, at some points characters are tossed in almost as if they're a product placement, never appearing again in the story, which is another rookie mistake. Finally, don't expect a resolution of the the time-traveler's conundrum. As in some other fictional accounts of time travel, this one leaves the reader in the middle of a "to be continued" -- instead of ending the tale neatly when the traveler gets back home.
April 1, 2016
The good:
Nice story with engaging narrator and interesting plot. I'm a sucker for time travel stories anyway.
The bad:
Relentless typos. Not little niggly things that you pick at, but missing words and glaring mistakes that a third-grader would look at and say, "That's a screw-up." The author needs to learn not to begin a sentence with a numeral (as in "45").
The ugly:
This book has no ending! I read several hundred pages in good faith expecting a conclusion to the story and got none. I'm not a big fan of serial books because they usually seem to be a writer's attempt to mine the same of storyline rather than create a new world, but respect their right to work it that way. However, they should make it clear in the promotional package that the story doesn't end when the book does.
I would have given a higher rating because the quality of the writing deserves more, but these flaws dragged it down. They are easy enough to fix, however, and the author should.
Nice story with engaging narrator and interesting plot. I'm a sucker for time travel stories anyway.
The bad:
Relentless typos. Not little niggly things that you pick at, but missing words and glaring mistakes that a third-grader would look at and say, "That's a screw-up." The author needs to learn not to begin a sentence with a numeral (as in "45").
The ugly:
This book has no ending! I read several hundred pages in good faith expecting a conclusion to the story and got none. I'm not a big fan of serial books because they usually seem to be a writer's attempt to mine the same of storyline rather than create a new world, but respect their right to work it that way. However, they should make it clear in the promotional package that the story doesn't end when the book does.
I would have given a higher rating because the quality of the writing deserves more, but these flaws dragged it down. They are easy enough to fix, however, and the author should.
May 27, 2013
Looking forward to book Two!
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May 15, 2015I could not finish this book because there are so many editing errors I kept losing the story line.
June 9, 2015
Unusual time travel
This is a new twist on time travel. You are always slightly surprised by the shifts when they occur. Hope there is a sequel.
This is a new twist on time travel. You are always slightly surprised by the shifts when they occur. Hope there is a sequel.
October 25, 2015
An unfulfilling poorly-ended novel, far too full of repetition, basketball, digression and attempted profundity. I don't have the energy to invest in a sequel. Sorry, dan.
November 3, 2015
Do Over
The central character of this novel gets the unique opportunity to go into the past and redo parts of his life.
The central character of this novel gets the unique opportunity to go into the past and redo parts of his life.
January 30, 2016
As time travel books go, this one was both different and interesting. I would be interested in a sequel as from the end of this story, it seems there should be one.
December 17, 2015
Interesting addition to the time travel genre. Numerous distracting grammatical errors though.
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