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A Journey Through Time

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We trust in the linear, forever the same shape of the past, until eternity. But the diffrences between the past, presence and future are nothing but an illusion.

387 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2020

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H.G. Tannhaus

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Profile Image for RAMYA.
3 reviews2 followers
June 3, 2020
Awesome adventure in the town of Winden full of time traveling, eerily beautiful. If you watched the tv series Dark on Netflix then this book is just for you.
Profile Image for Johan D'Haenen.
1,095 reviews11 followers
December 16, 2020
I have read thousands of books, but this must have been my most bizarre reading experience ever.
Of course, it originated with viewing the German series Dark. I got intrigued with the book in the series and went to search for it. First I was notified that the book was not real and that what was available on Amazon and other sites was nothing but an empty notebook.
But than I downloaded a copy from ZLibrary and this turned out to be a real book, written by Amelia Wood and translated by Helma Neumann. ( https://1lib.eu/book/5776255/392284 )
To my great surprise, I could find nothing neither for Amelia Wood, nor for the translator. A search for the publishers "Minotauros Publishers" equally proved to be unfruitful.
Finally, I searched for the ISBN number and this led me to an Indian website: https://www.isbns.co.in/isbn/97817166...
This link in turn brought me to a German website, Abebooks, where the book can be bought in a printed version: https://www.abebooks.de/servlet/ShopB...
Now about the book itself: Apart from the names of the characters, the story has nothing to do with the series. The story itself may be interesting, but the book itself is very badly written - or very badly translated - and needs a lot of reviewing and editing.
Profile Image for Gamze Kaplandere Taşlı.
149 reviews11 followers
May 29, 2020
Bu kitabı dizide gördüğüm zaman çok merak etmiştim. Kitabın basıldığını görür görmez hemen aldım.
İlk olarak merak edebileceğiniz soruyu cevaplamak istiyorum; Netflix de yayınlanan Dark dizisi ile bağlantılı mı?
Hem evet hem hayır.
Dizide aşina olduğumuz 3 isim kitapta da karşımıza çıkıyor. Bunlar; Tannhaus , Charlotte ve Adam Kahnwald.
(Ve tabii dizide olduğu şekilde kitapta da mağara önemli bir konumda. Fakat dizinin aksine kitapta zaman yolculuğunu saat ile gerçekleştiriyorlar.)

Tannhaus dizideki gibi bir saat ustası.
Charlotte dizidekinin aksine Tannhaus'un kızı. (Dizide torunuydu.) Hatta dizideki Charlotte ile kitaptaki Charlotte arasında isim harici en ufak bir benzerlik bulunmamakta. Ben karakter ve olaylar açısından daha çok dizideki Claudia'ya benzettim.

Dizide gördüğümüz diğer hiçbir karakter bu kitapta yer almıyor.

-Bu kısım biraz spoiler olabilir.-
Olaylar Tannhaus'un vefat etmesi ile başlıyor. Kızı Charlotte babasının ölüm haberini aldıktan sonra saat dükkanının ona kaldığını öğreniyor. İlk başta satmayı düşünse de babasının günlüğünü bulduktan ve babasından ona kalan saat ile zamanda yolculuk yapabildiğini öğrendikten sonra fikri değişiyor. Yukarıda söylediğim gibi kitapta, zamanda yolculuk saatler ile gerçekleşiyor. Her zaman yolcusunun, kendine özgü bir parça ile tamamladığı bir saati var. Harry Potter'daki asanın büyücüyü seçmesi misali saat de efendisini seçiyor. Şöyle söylemek daha doğru olur; her saat ile zamanda yolculuk yapmak mümkün değil. Bunun için özel bir parça gerekiyor. Geçmişte bunlar su, kum, ateş vb şeyler olmuş. Tannhaus'un yaptığı saatlerde ise önemli parça; iye çekirdeği. Adam Kahnwald da bu iye çekirdeği ile yapılan saati elde etmek istiyor.

Zaman Korucuları zamanda yaşanan sapmaları düzeltmek için Charlotte'nin yardımına ihtiyaç duyuyorlar ve okurken Charlotte ile birlikte maceradan maceraya sürükleniyoruz.
-spoiler sonu-

Ben aslında kitabın bu şekilde bir roman değil aksine zamanda yolculuk ile ilgili bilimsel veriler içeren bir kitap olduğunu düşünmüştüm (Einstein'ın teorileri, solucan delikleri, güneş tutulmaları vb. gibi) ya da bir nevi Tannhaus'un bu konu üzerine almış olduğu notları okuyacağımızı sanmıştım. Böyle bir şey beklemiyordum ama yine de sevdim. Gerçekten akıcı ve sürükleyici bir kitaptı. Tek bir olumsuz eleştirim var kitabın biraz fazla Türkçeleştirilmiş olduğunu düşünüyorum. Okurken, dizideki gibi o kasvetli gizemli havaya giremedim bir türlü. Ama bu o kadar da büyük bir sorun değil tüm bunlara rağmen güzel bir kitaptı.

Sanırım 2. kitabı da çıkacakmış. Bu kitap bir nevi olayların başlangıcını anlattığı için belki diğer karakterleri 2. kitapta görebiliriz.




“Zamanın doğrusal olduğuna güveniriz. Muntazam şekilde ebediyen ilerlediğini düşünürüz. Sonsuza dek. Ancak geçmiş, şu an ve gelecek arasındaki fark illüzyondan başka bir şey değildir. Dün, bugün ve yarın peş peşe gelmez. Sonsuz bir döngü halinde birbirlerine bağlıdırlar. Her şey birbirine bağlıdır... Hayat bir labirenttir. Bazı insanlar hayatlarını bir çıkış yolu arayarak geçirirler. Ama tek yol vardır, o da daha derine götürür. Merkezine varana kadar bunu anlayamazsın.”
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14 reviews
July 3, 2020
To have the loops of time explained so thoroughly, by a German watchmaker (fitting), with no advanced physics to confuse its simplicity, was a wonderful find.
When I mentioned this book to a friend today, she told me about Dark, and asked me if I had watched the series. I told her I had to binge through the book today and if the series is anything like the book, I’m afraid I won’t be sleeping tonight, too.

Strange things happen to my mental balance when I don’t sleep. But wait...I’ve just cued up Netflix and found Dark, which I fear I will have to watch in the dark because my lights just blew out.
Profile Image for Antonella ✨☕.
247 reviews124 followers
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August 16, 2020
So, apparently this is an actual book now, published early this year and you can find it on Amazon, yet there's only a notebook and a turkish version on there?? And most people said it doesn't exist. Where's the truth, then? 🤔

I need this book to be real 😭😭😭
1 review
July 30, 2020
The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning.
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121 reviews1 follower
January 10, 2021
After watching Dark the series on Netflix, I was determined to read the book referenced regularly in the series. And boy this book does not disappoint. This was an very interesting read related to time travel. Characters and the storyline is definitely catchy which make this as a read worthy.
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817 reviews11 followers
February 22, 2021
I loved Dark and I was beyond excited to read this. I even special ordered it from my favorite local bookshop. What I got was a jarbled mess of a story unrelated to Dark. And it was clearly just a German book thrown into google translate. The “translator” didn’t even bother to proof read the translation as there are numerous grammatical and spelling errors. Fuck this book.
Profile Image for Aylin Koç.
189 reviews8 followers
July 14, 2020
Konusu cok guzel ve farkli, kitabi alirken roman degil de bilimsel acidan zamani ele alan bir kitap olarak dusunmustum. Ancak bu zamani temel Alan, kurgulanmis bir roman. Surukleyiciydi devami gelecek saniyorum
Profile Image for Tom Hill.
463 reviews13 followers
January 29, 2021
Not sure what I expected when I found this book but I am a fan of the series Dark, and expected it to have something to do with the series. Instead, even though it has some of the same character, it it’s own strange story. Obviously translated from German, by someone with only passing understanding of English, the phrasing is clumsy at best and definitely detracts from understanding the very convoluted story line. My guess is this is a book that did not exist when the Netflix series debuted, and when it turned out to be a success they rushed out this sad excuse for literature.
Profile Image for Rabia.
275 reviews
May 6, 2023
Zaman yolculuğu konusunun çok büyük bir hayranıyım. Öyle ki bu hayranlık "Geleceğe Dönüş " filminden hâlâ favorim olan Doctor Who'ya ve gerek kitap gerekse dizi-filme kadar ne varsa okumaya, izlemeye kadar gitti. Hatta şuanda zaman yolculuğu konusu ile ilgili özgün içerik kalmadığı ve hep tekrar yapımların olduğu bir dönemdeyiz... En son Netflix'te çok sevdiğim dizi olan Dark'ı izlediğimde çok heyecanlanmıştım ve bu kitabı da dizide görüp almıştım. ÇOK PİŞMANIM.

Kitap o kadar basit o kadar saçma çevrilmiş ki yani çok güldüğüm yerler oldu "Abla Allah aşkına yaaa" diye bir bölüm vardı ve yan karakterin sürekli "abla olmaz, abla yapma, Tannhaus amca" gibi konuşmaları, kitabın asla bir noktaya bağlanamaması, kitabın gittikçe kötüleşmesi vs vs... yani çok kötüydü.

Aslında kitap güzel başladı ama öyle bir noktaya geldi ki artık ne okuyorum ben demeye başlamıştım, elimde dolaştırmaktan şu kitabı iyice reading-slump moduna girdim. Acil bu moddan çıkıp bu kitabı hemen unutmak dileği ile...
Profile Image for Oana Gabriela.
26 reviews9 followers
March 10, 2024
îmi e rușine de faptul că au asociat cartea asta cu serialul
Profile Image for Marcell Magyari.
5 reviews
March 31, 2022
Positive: The first part of the book is okay. The time travel concept is clean (at first), and unique to the book. I liked some of the names and symbols.

Negative: It isn't related to the Dark Netflix series, and it is very poorly written and poorly translated. Full of very basic uninteresting acts and motives from movies, like slipping on a banana peel or being hit by a tree branch in a jungle. I feel like the first 50 pages should have been reduced to 10, and the last 10 pages should have been expanded to 50. The conversations are dumb and unrealistic. In the later part of the book even some names are mixed up. There are a few nonsense things too, like using objects in a time in which it was not available yet, and a few illogical thoughts for the sake of the story.
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15 reviews
November 15, 2020
Dark isimli diziyi izleyenlerin karşılaşmış olacağı zaman geçişlerini iyi anlatmış, ancak çeviri olarak sanki Türkiye'de geçiyormuş gibi his veriyor. bu yünden biraz çeviri benim hoşuma gitmedi.
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22 reviews
July 27, 2025
Other than a few names and places, this has nothing to do with the show DARK. Characters might have similar names to tv counterpart, but they're in no way the same characters. This book wasn't a fake scientific account of time travel, using DARK universe rules, nor was it some 'movie tie-in' book (like the manual from the umbrella academy, that kinda talked about various things in that show, without really adding anything to the universe).

This book is a fictional story about someone time traveling using everything the show did not, i.e. time cops, time bandits, butterfly effects from doing things in the past that affect M.C.'s present reality (at one point Nazis never lost). Again, nothing to do with show. it's not a prequel, sequel, or alternate timeline (the final paragraph might try to allow that it could be alternate timeline, but it's just a vague description of time travel device that could vaguely resemble DARK's if you were still desperate for connection).

It appears the book was made to order (and poorly made at that). Common amongst the few of these books I've read, that seem to have been printed the day my order was placed, there is lack of editing. Occasionally paragraphs repeat themselves, slightly altered, as if someone forgot to delete the rough draft. Whoever or whatever translated this gets mixed up on genders, and didn't adjust sentence structure for English language.

The plot itself; formulaic. Girl with a daddy issue or two inherits watch shop that she was never interested in. She is left a one of kind clock the controls time. Immediately uses it to win bets and rewrite her past crummy days by living out fantasy of buying into job she was fired from and becoming a partner. Not the worst start. Felt like a logical progression after getting time travel powers. Then time cop's show up (time Guardians), saying they need her help fixing things, she's the chosen one.

Now formula begins.

Chapter breakdown:

1)Time guardian backstory - from perspective of guardian, prior to receiving that role, a specialized watch maker of the time is struggling for various reason to make a watch. Random guy arrives and tells watch maker to go to mystery cave and create watch using material from cave.

2)Present day with heroine and guardian - guardian grabs girl and brings her to his time to solve a problem. The solution always involves going back to mystery cave and doing something.

3)Back to new, butterfly effected present - Heroine mucks about until she runs into a New guardian of different diverse background. The magic mystery cave will be the same cave despite traveling to different parts of the world.

The best part about the formula is that even the author seemed to get bored writing it. The book stops giving travel descriptions and eventually descends to "we need to go to cave, you got a cave right?" "here is the cave, no questions asked. fix this." things start to wrap up so quickly it felt like paragraphs or chapters were missing, which at that point, wasn't complaining.

There's a very quick and forced love interest with a guardian thrown in. Some soap opera twists. Sections are broken into midnight, morning, evening etc. and further broken down into chapters 00:00, 01:00... which seemed to have nothin to do with anything, other than throwing in more time references. The book isn't suddenly 24, with every chapter being an hour of time, so chapters numbered as time stamps was a bit annoying.

Overall it's just a very basic time travel novel. I didn't HATE the story, but it did get boring quickly. It felt like it was written for a young adult audience, and then annoyingly tweaked in places to MAYBE, with a stretch, resemble DARK tv show. But without the resemblance, I don't know how this could sell copies outside of family and friend.
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43 reviews
September 11, 2023
"Dark: A Journey Through Time" is a thought-provoking and mind-bending exploration of time, interwoven with a gripping narrative that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Written by H.G.Tannhaus, this book is an ambitious attempt to unravel the intricacies of temporal concepts while delivering a compelling story.

The most outstanding feature of this book is its seamless fusion of science and fiction. The author masterfully combines theoretical concepts about time with an engaging storyline, drawing readers into a world where the boundaries of past, present, and future blur in mesmerizing ways. Fans of the "Dark" Netflix series will find this book a perfect companion, as it delves deeper into the concepts that underpin the show.

The narrative is well-crafted, with a captivating plot that holds your attention throughout. The characters are multidimensional, and their journeys through time are both riveting and emotionally charged. The author's ability to make complex temporal theories accessible through the characters' experiences is commendable.

However, at times, the book can become a bit overwhelming with its extensive explanations of theoretical physics. While this is essential for understanding the core concepts, some readers might find themselves getting lost in the intricacies.

In conclusion, "Dark: A Journey Through Time" is a remarkable book that successfully marries science and fiction to explore the mysteries of time. Its engaging narrative and thought-provoking ideas make it a must-read for fans of the "Dark" series and anyone intrigued by the enigmatic nature of time. Although it occasionally gets bogged down in scientific detail, it remains an enthralling journey, earning it a solid 4 out of 5 rating.
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68 reviews1 follower
August 15, 2022
Strange book. Starts out rather ok, but becomes bit tedious. Has nothing to do with the Dark-series, except for the time travel, watches, and the names Tannhaus and Winden.
I've read the English version, and the language/translation is appaling. The original language is one in which the gender of the possessive pronoun is related to the pronoun itself instead of its owner. Taking that and the use of the name Od Tengri, I presume the original is Turkish.
H.G Tannhaus is not the writer, and both the translator mentioned and the publisher do not exist in the 'form' mentioned. Mention worth is the sloppiness of the translation - everywhere.
Profile Image for Ecem.
9 reviews
October 5, 2020
Çok güzel başladı ancak sonlara doğru akıcılığını kaybettiğini düşünüyorum..
1 review
October 23, 2020
How do I get this book?
I really need it 'cause I liked dark series on Netflix
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47 reviews
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July 25, 2021
A very unique read

This is one of those books one should read twice. A lot happened in the story, and i feel a re-read is in order. Good story line and a lot of twists and turns.
1 review
October 12, 2022
soo amazing
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
1 review
November 13, 2022
Dizi ile sadece karakter isimleri benzeşiyor. Çevirisinin çok kötü olduğunu düşünüyorum, okurken çok sıkıldım. Diziden sonra kitabı merak edenlere tavsiye etmem.
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8 reviews
April 8, 2023
Didn't have so much to do with the series at all. The translation was very bad. But was an ok read if you get past this.
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