Do you time travel noises and welcome to my home everybody?
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It's book club. It's Wednesday night book cup. I'm your host Andy rice. It's just me today
We're talking about a book that I found yesterday looking around on my audible plus subscriptions
I was like, you know, like spending a credit this week
I want to see what they have in the plus catalog see what I can find and I was browsing
It knows me it knows what I'm into at this point because I tend to read a lot of fiction
I tend to read a lot of science fiction and
What is one of the biggest science fiction tropes?
Well, that's time travel baby and it threw a book at me called a ripple in time now
I'm gonna be honest when I saw that I thought a wrinkle in time
Which I'm sure that's what this you know, it's a ripple in time 2019 Victor
Zugg and I'm sure that's what the play on words is like. Oh, I'll just call it a rip instead of a wrinkle in time
That's fun, but I got tricked by my own stupidity and I thought it was a wrinkle in time for and so I started this and
It's not a wrinkle in completely different. It's its own thing. Let me break down what it is
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And anyway, I'm gonna spark this up, but we're gonna get into ripple and buckle up. It's a good one
So we open up a federal air marshal Mason and he's going through the airport and he's checking out the passenger getting ready to go
On the plane. He gets a first-class ticket a first-class and
They take off and what's kind of fucked up now to survive which I kind of sucks that all the in the board
It don't live but anyway the plane takes off and it experiences some turbulence and when it comes out the other side
There's panic from the stewardess and the pilots because they don't see any cities
They don't have any of their navic navigational equipment
They find themselves over familiar land but no cities and so they have to ditch the plane
Not a crash because they make that definition they make that clear at the end sort of he goes
Yeah, we didn't crash it
We ditched it so they ditched the plane in what would be Myrtle Beach at some point in the future
But right now is is just you know pre Myrtle Beach because they end up going back in time
They run into they don't know really what know where they're at
But after a couple days of being there and they run into Native Americans
Which they make the point of saying I think it's okay to call them Indian and I wonder I'm sure it was so
But I don't think we can now what I'm referring to them
So I'll just stick with the Native American
But this but just know that throughout the book they call them Indian they run into them and they start to piece together
They're back in probably the late 17th century early in century and they're trying to get their bearings
They make friends with first Native American eat they do some trading they meet the village
They save their lives when a neighbor go in another tribe come in tax
He uses his nine millimeter or his stars
I don't know if it's Glock and he has 98 round or 108 but then he ends up having the gate after he kills
these Native Americans with it, but he
Yeah, so it's basically it's Mason and out of the hundred and eighty survivors or whatever it is
Maybe I'm getting that makes that number mixed up
But of all the people that were on the plane only like 30 survived
They should not the pilots when they get to the beach
Fever takes one of them some of them die in the Native American attack
So it ends up getting down to like the 20s that 20s is our core group moving forward
They end up spending a lot of time in the past like this isn't just a quick
Let's get back the present how they gonna do their portal is 30,000 feet in the air and airplanes won't be invented some time
so they're
Trying to survive now Mason and a few other guys with some with good heads on their shoulders
they get together and they start planning a
or they start, you know hunting and
and
fishing and building
Huts that the you know, the Native American people combined and kind of help them with so they end up making this like little community
Kind of like near some water a water source that that they were using fishing
then they realize that they need to make it to Charlestown so not Charleston, but Charlestown and they are
Debating whether or not to go because they don't have period accurate clothing. They don't have any money
They don't know the custom they might be burned at the stake for being witches just by showing up. So
They that's part of like the debate, but then they run into trouble out on the beach area
They see some what they assume pirates but ended up being merchants walking by but kind of scares them at one point
There's this I don't want to give away too much
That's I'm only gonna kind of do the and I don't want to do this because I kind I want you guys to read this
So it's a time travel story and what I love about it is them being back in time
They do the author Victor suggs does does does such a great job with the historical accuracy
So I looked him up and he's like a survival
expert guy
ex a bunch of military sounding things
He's what else what is his little biography? Yeah, he's a former US Air Force officer and then OSI special
I don't know if that is and he's been doing a bunch of like survival
so this is it's what this book is called as a ripple in time a
Historical novel of survival and that's the vibe it gets
It's like one of those games that you play where you get shipwrecked on an island
You just have to build and craft and get used to the locals
That's what this book is and and it's core. It feels a lot like the opening to lost meets
well, I mean actually lost has a bunch of fact feel like so yeah, so it's like lost but with a harder emphasis on survival and
way less emphasis on
Like mysteries because there's not a lot of mysteries
It's like you're not the only big mystery. The only thing you're really thinking is how do they get but that's kind of salt
It's like turbulence. It's like a vortex they found in the air sort of so they kind of get that but then the
Mists, I mean that's kind of the only thing the act but I will say I've given away too much
If you make it to the ending of this book, there's it
Changes tones quite a bit the last couple of chapters in a very interesting way that leads to
Definitely there being a sequel which I think I'm gonna eat it after next week as next week's book. I have guests so
That one that one's already planned but I continue with this ripple in time because of it
so if you like books that are full of like sir like the it's good historical fictions like when he describes a boat or
Ship there's a difference and he knows what he's doing cuz when anyone he what makes this great for a person who doesn't know
Anything about ships myself or anything about 18th century?
Charlestown, which I don't he
He gives the main character the perspective of someone who doesn't know as well. So
Everything is explained to him in a way that we can understand which makes it great
So there's a one of the characters is someone who has a bunch of historical knowledge
They just their history or something there. Maybe I forgot exactly her job, but she knows a lot about the air
She's written paper certain people that we meet in the book
So having her is invaluable right her explaining everything to him is explaining it to us the reader and it's done in such a
Like a I don't even have the right way to describe this but it's it's done in a way
It doesn't feel like boring historical research
And I think that that's the best kind of compliment you can give a historical fiction is when you're getting that the you're getting the history
But it feels interesting to get and I love that
So he does a great job at that like I was interested in knowing the dimensions of the ship that that they eventually find or
the the when even when he describes the money that they because a little bit of a spoiler, but there's a
I'm just gonna use lost. There's a Sawyer s character a guy who doesn't think that Mason she in charge and he's kind of
Shifty and shady, you know, I he does change over the book, which I like his growth his months go by and
there's definitely growth from all the care and he finds a treasure chest full of coins and
He at first thinks he's just gonna keep it to himself, but then they kind of just better heads prevails a stupid plan
What are you gonna do with all that?
And how you gonna hide it all your people that you survive on for food and so he shows them and then they use that
Money, so it is one of those like deus ex machina kind of here's a chest full of gold and silver
But what's great is that is not a loophole in any way?
That's not an unresolved issue that comes back in a big big big way later which loved because I thought as I'm reading it
I'm going okay, they find a treasure chest. Okay, but then later on I'm like, okay. Yeah, I get it. I get it
So yeah super cool survival stuff that he talks about
Breaking down certain trees to get the fibers to build ropes to then build smokers that you could smoke the venison on
To keep it longer
He talks, you know the hut making
a
Finding clean water source how to filtrate it, you know that kind of stuff all that again doesn't feel like
homework to listen to it feels
Feels great. It feels like it just I mean yet like the main guy
He's it just he's competent because he's an ex it feels like he's you know, an ex Air Force our officer
I think Victor's I just made this and that's fine because if he's this badass
You know like I would want to be with him in a time travel situation
It makes a lot more sense than like Jack from lost who why would he that automatically make him a good leader?
This guy though level-headed calm not quick to anger
It feels like he could handle himself
he like his bullets the fact that he started with like a hundred and whatever and
before the climax he still has like 98 of them that shows a lot of resolve for living months in the
Like he learned how to use bow and arrows just to hunt so that you know, like it's it's cool
I like the choices that the characters there's some fun. Oh, and I will say at the top
Typically, I'm not someone who enjoys a sex scene in a book because I don't that same thing movies
It's not it's not like I'm a prude or anything
I you know what I like but it's just more like it just doesn't add anything to fucking poke for me
Like I wish that the authors or which books would just be like and then they fucked next chapter
Like I don't need it to be like he pulled his member. She pulled his member out and then inserted it inside her
her
Warmness or whatever they use to not say the fuck that you know the
Anatomically correct things or I guess cruder ways to say it. I mean, it's a it's a weird
It's weird when it's thrown in but I get it
I get that you want to vicariously fuck some chick in the past whatever good for you Victor, but
Yeah, so I mean, yeah, this was it's gritty. It's like Oregon Trail meets lost
I think it's probably the best way to think about this. It's
Got a great conclusion great conclusion like one of those I was wondering where this is going
You know what's gonna happen and then boom it it ends in a way where I'm like, alright
Yeah, I got to read the second one. And so I hope he delivers on that. It's called the planters
So, I mean if that one delivers
I'll read definitely read the third one and I'll review both of those as we continue this ripple in time and maybe even I can
Insert I could change the dates on it to make it look like I review them in order
So that'd be like my own ripple in time effect
But if we're gonna talk about time travel, you know, we are because this is me talking you talk about whatever
I don't necessarily believe in the don't fuck with the past while you're in the past sort of
philosophy of time travel, I don't
necessarily believe time travel is
possible in the sense that we could affect our own timeless because I feel like everything that I've done and everything I've
Experienced has happened already. So it would be impossible to change that because it's already done
but if I were to go back in time to a
Point if I were to go back in time, I think I would be going to an alternate timeline at that point
So the moment something changes you're just living a different timeline. So the other version of me the one that already
Experienced all that still experiences all that if that myself
But I think that if you go back in time feel free to fuck with fuck with the past kill baby Hitler
Stop the Nazi regime any way you can right?
Stop 9-eleven warn Pearl Harbor, you know
I know I'm doing a lot of pro US stuff right now
If you're an international listener, you could find ways to improve your stop world disasters in your own country
Or if you don't want to do the whole superhero route, you just want to make money. You're good be a Lex Luthor without a Superman
There's a Lex Luthor. There's there's something called the else worlds in the DC Comics and in DC Comics they
They do
Well, it's like a twist on a classic hero. So in this case Superman
Clark Kent little baby Kal-El instead of landing in
Kansas in like the 40s or 50s
He lands in Soviet Russia and he's immediately given to once they find out that he has superpowers his good
obedient Russian parents the farmers that find him immediately hand him over to the government as they're like
Hey, this is a super powered baby. This would be great for the government
The government trains him to be the most powerful being on earth and uses it to just make Russia
Like the most dominant force in the world Lex Luthor spends his whole life as like president
Being the smartest man ever trying to stop Superman the uber Superman from like taking over the world
I guess and they come to head-to-head at some point
They have a conversation and at Lex Luthor like tells Clark
The Kal-El or super uber Superman or whatever that he convinces him to fuck off like Kal-El's like
Oh, you're right. I'm a monster. What am I doing?
And he leaves and then with Lex Luthor being able to do whatever it is that he's without having Superman as the primary
Focus of his attention. He was able to extend life by hundreds of years for the average person
cure most diseases, you know, like make a utopian society and
I feel like if you can go back in time you are able to
Start that process sooner like go for it
I mean, I don't think that you could break the world as we know it right now
I feel like the world is kind of held together with duct tape
You know, we're always just so close to just either war
Famine these this is got a lot darker than I anticipate
This is supposed to be just a fun time travel survival story
But it does get it does get grim. So this is a fun. It's not like a doesn't make you laugh
You're not gonna be there's no jokes in the book
But maybe maybe a couple little wry winky sort of things from a character to another character
But for the most part, this is a gritty Oregon Trail meets lost without the mystery and
Just a good solid time travel book. So I give this if we're gonna rate this which I have I'm gonna rate this on
Oh god, I would be a fool to this is stupid. I'm so sorry. I'm going to have but
this gets this gets a
for four eight
fifteen sixteen twenty three and forty twos out of five four eight
Fifteen sixteen twenty three and forty twos if you know, you know next week
We are going to be reviewing with some fun
Are going to be reviewing with some friends this time. I have a couple of actually
You know book literate not like weren't but I'm saying like these are ones a teacher
So I mean it's gonna be exciting
Probably have to blur their names
So you might not ever know who they are
But the this conversation be great and the book that we're reviewing is one of my all-time
Favorites it's the curious incident of the dog the murder mystery the point of view of a wonder that we are gonna
into it and
The I think one of them is the parents of an autistic child themselves. So we've got some some really
Interesting perspectives on join us next week. See you then and enjoy the rest of your night and then check out ripple in time
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