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Title: My Troubles with Time
Author: Benson Lee Grayson
Narrator: Mark Rossman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-17-18
Publisher: Lust Takes the White House
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Publisher's Summary:
In this light-hearted tale intended to leave the listener happy, a friendless physics professor in his mid-30s, still a virgin, relates how he traveled back to December 1941 in his time machine, seeking to become a national hero by destroying the Japanese fleet which bombed Pearl Harbor. Against all odds, he succeeds. Instead of being hailed as a hero, he is arrested and sentenced to death by a US Navy Court Martial for mistakenly attacking the Japanese vessels before they launched their attack. The time machine mysteriously vanishes, and his claims to have invented it are ridiculed. The professor's escape from this fate is one of the most unusual and most humorous ever encountered in fiction.
Members Reviews:
Good premise, needs to be worked on
This author needs to invest in an editor and a good proofreader. Also a thesaurus would help, after using 'some' multiple times instead of: nearly, about, close to, a bit under, a little over, etc. I stopped counting after the 5th instance.
The story sounded so interesting, I kept reading hoping it would improve. There is no pace to speak of, it meanders through the depressing current life of an un-tenured physics professor, and onward to several fairly miserable trips through time.
Citing his own brilliance, and describing his life as a failure, the main character is able to become different characters once he is in another time. He is not a likable person in any time zone. I was sickened by his spineless persona in the present timeline, and further put off by his blustering and threatening persona once he donned an officer's uniform in war torn France.
His references to women are ludicrous, they are voluptuous, busty, obviously mere sex objects. I could have lived the rest of my life without having to read the sex scene near the end. It was included so there could be a surprise progeny, I get that. Maynard (the main character) could have had the experience and not described it in the salacious manner we were treated to.
I still contend this has good bones. Hopefully this author will rework it someday. And it would be nice if the ending included the story of the impact on history he promised to impart.
Poorly plotted, poorly written
I like time-travel stories, but I can't recommend this one. There were some major problems in plotting (see below), and every page was riddled with errors of English.
What is it that makes authors think they can type a first draft, spell-check it, and publish without proofreading it, let alone revising it? Do they really have so little respect for their potential audience? Do they really have so little concern for their own reputation? Every page of this book had multiple errors, too many to count. I didn't see misspelled words, so Benson Grayson must have spell-checked his file, but there were a LOT of wrong words -- "his" for "this" and vice versa, that sorry of thing. There were also a lot of missing words or duplicated words, and just wrong words like "check account" (for "checking"). Granted, I'm less tolerant of this kind of slovenly writing than most people would be, but this author ranks very high on the slovenly scale.
SPOILER ALERT
Now, for the problems with plotting. In short, there are several unbelievable coincidences, and many things happen out of the blue because the author needs them to happen, even though the story didn't justify them.
