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Review by A_Wolfe -- The Traveler's Best Seller
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Traveler's Best Seller" by Rick Incorvia.]
3 out of 4 stars
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The Traveler’s Best Seller is a personal story with very few inhibitions. The unthinkable comes to life, redefining what is possible for the world at large. Reading the progression backwards, you might perceive the methods of a profit-driven anecdote created as an attempt at a quick dollar. But you have yet to meet Mr. Peregrine, a middle-American community member from the mind of author Rick Incorvia. All things considered, Rick fleshes out this story with a much grander design, breaking down the outlook of a life well lived through the relationships with others and himself.
Tim Peregrine is a High School history teacher trapped inside an explorer’s body. He lives a stoic life, in his mundane school with a litany of teachers and students that merely go through the motions, indenturing him within the feeling of constant stagnation. Tim then is diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, which starts him on an introspective path towards finding what he wants most out of his remaining months of life.
His newfound skepticism and mortality bring him to a discretionary offer online to ‘travel through time’ with the help of some newly developed, unofficial technology. From the very moment Tim finds truth in the service advertised, his entire life is changed. Tim transfers his experiences with time traveling and meeting famous figures from history into his profession, turning every lesson created for his students into a multi-dimensional, theatrical performance. Tim begins using his time to turn his life into one enormous passion project, garnering attention from unforeseen places and pushing him to find courage in unexplored parts of his memory and his desires to change the future for everyone that he can.
Even with stepping away from the final pages, viewing The Traveler’s Best Seller as just a book is difficult, considering how often Rick uses the medium of a novel to feel like you’re talking to someone on their life’s biggest endeavors. The flow of this book, from start to finish, is natural and hardly does it ever feel forced by one character’s perspective or another. Tim is a deeply analytical person with an obsession for details that have been recorded as proven change to history, and you watch the outlook on the details and decisions in his own life go from regret to beautiful realization in a single thought. The mechanism for his life change (time travel) helps to show him the many sides of people like George Washington, give him his own sort of empathy and ownership of his own life decisions despite any circumstance.
Something that really adds a sparkle to these chapters are the ways Tim expounds on different characters in the book as he communicates with them. The feeling that often comes with front-loading or expelling context can take away from the story in a book. Tim’s thoughts about his dying substantiates his complicated outlook on his fellow faculty members, for example. While his colleagues don’t stay prevalent in the chapters, you remember what they may be feeling or thinking when Tim has disappeared from contact. Some of the interactions Tim engages in are clearly socially-obligated gestures, but this organic recognition of who they are gives Rick a way to develop their views and conversations with true evolution or gradual awareness of our main character’s mental state. Character development like this adds to the home-town feel of the book, and Tim actions receive “talk-of-the-town” aesthetics and still a great amount of page-appeal.
The Traveler’s Best Seller places the bar high for modern story telling. From resentment, security, regret, enlightenment and personal freedom, it’s hard to detail how many situations are touched on along Tim’s search for making every second count. Receiving 3 out of 4 stars, this could be the story that transforms your bucket list into a done-it list.
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3 out of 4 stars
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The Traveler’s Best Seller is a personal story with very few inhibitions. The unthinkable comes to life, redefining what is possible for the world at large. Reading the progression backwards, you might perceive the methods of a profit-driven anecdote created as an attempt at a quick dollar. But you have yet to meet Mr. Peregrine, a middle-American community member from the mind of author Rick Incorvia. All things considered, Rick fleshes out this story with a much grander design, breaking down the outlook of a life well lived through the relationships with others and himself.
Tim Peregrine is a High School history teacher trapped inside an explorer’s body. He lives a stoic life, in his mundane school with a litany of teachers and students that merely go through the motions, indenturing him within the feeling of constant stagnation. Tim then is diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, which starts him on an introspective path towards finding what he wants most out of his remaining months of life.
His newfound skepticism and mortality bring him to a discretionary offer online to ‘travel through time’ with the help of some newly developed, unofficial technology. From the very moment Tim finds truth in the service advertised, his entire life is changed. Tim transfers his experiences with time traveling and meeting famous figures from history into his profession, turning every lesson created for his students into a multi-dimensional, theatrical performance. Tim begins using his time to turn his life into one enormous passion project, garnering attention from unforeseen places and pushing him to find courage in unexplored parts of his memory and his desires to change the future for everyone that he can.
Even with stepping away from the final pages, viewing The Traveler’s Best Seller as just a book is difficult, considering how often Rick uses the medium of a novel to feel like you’re talking to someone on their life’s biggest endeavors. The flow of this book, from start to finish, is natural and hardly does it ever feel forced by one character’s perspective or another. Tim is a deeply analytical person with an obsession for details that have been recorded as proven change to history, and you watch the outlook on the details and decisions in his own life go from regret to beautiful realization in a single thought. The mechanism for his life change (time travel) helps to show him the many sides of people like George Washington, give him his own sort of empathy and ownership of his own life decisions despite any circumstance.
Something that really adds a sparkle to these chapters are the ways Tim expounds on different characters in the book as he communicates with them. The feeling that often comes with front-loading or expelling context can take away from the story in a book. Tim’s thoughts about his dying substantiates his complicated outlook on his fellow faculty members, for example. While his colleagues don’t stay prevalent in the chapters, you remember what they may be feeling or thinking when Tim has disappeared from contact. Some of the interactions Tim engages in are clearly socially-obligated gestures, but this organic recognition of who they are gives Rick a way to develop their views and conversations with true evolution or gradual awareness of our main character’s mental state. Character development like this adds to the home-town feel of the book, and Tim actions receive “talk-of-the-town” aesthetics and still a great amount of page-appeal.
The Traveler’s Best Seller places the bar high for modern story telling. From resentment, security, regret, enlightenment and personal freedom, it’s hard to detail how many situations are touched on along Tim’s search for making every second count. Receiving 3 out of 4 stars, this could be the story that transforms your bucket list into a done-it list.
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