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Man in the Empty Suit
by Sean Ferrell
**March 2013**
At times, this book was hard to follow. After all, the book is about time travel, and he intentionally runs into himself once per year. However, it definitely captured my attention. I tend to be very critical of anything involving time travel; I picked apart the Disney movie "Meet the Robinsons" because, by fixing one's own problems, the future that a person encounters should no longer be part of their memory because it no longer exists. Of course, one could go deeper into the physics of it and subscribe to the theory of alternate universes and the like, but that gets confusing rather quickly.
Ferrell does a phenomenal job of explaining how things are possible; the idea of being tethered or untethered beautifully resolves the problem. Each incarnation of this man encounters everyone else as an individual, and the choices he makes in each carnation shapes which of his selves he aligns with. The book is very well done. I get nervous every time I get a book with a 7 day limit from the library, mainly because I know that means there will be no renewing it and I'm stuck reading it immediately and praying to make the deadline, but I made this one in just under 6 days. The tale was fascinating and hard to predict, but beautifully created.
**Update January 2015**
While I still love the book and the concepts within, I had forgotten about the middle chunk. The span of time between the parties quickly becomes boring. It took me longer to read those 50 or so pages than it did the other 250.
At times, this book was hard to follow. After all, the book is about time travel, and he intentionally runs into himself once per year. However, it definitely captured my attention. I tend to be very critical of anything involving time travel; I picked apart the Disney movie "Meet the Robinsons" because, by fixing one's own problems, the future that a person encounters should no longer be part of their memory because it no longer exists. Of course, one could go deeper into the physics of it and subscribe to the theory of alternate universes and the like, but that gets confusing rather quickly.
Ferrell does a phenomenal job of explaining how things are possible; the idea of being tethered or untethered beautifully resolves the problem. Each incarnation of this man encounters everyone else as an individual, and the choices he makes in each carnation shapes which of his selves he aligns with. The book is very well done. I get nervous every time I get a book with a 7 day limit from the library, mainly because I know that means there will be no renewing it and I'm stuck reading it immediately and praying to make the deadline, but I made this one in just under 6 days. The tale was fascinating and hard to predict, but beautifully created.
**Update January 2015**
While I still love the book and the concepts within, I had forgotten about the middle chunk. The span of time between the parties quickly becomes boring. It took me longer to read those 50 or so pages than it did the other 250.