by John Titor
John Titor Foundation, ©2001.
ISBN: 1591964369 9781591964360
OCLC: 56360697
Completed: 05-14-2008
Why I read this book: Colin had me interlibrary loan it for him. Very few libraries own this book, and since it was coming all the way from South Carolina, I thought I might as well go ahead and read it while it was here.
Yeah. This is the weirdest thing I have ever read in my life.
The subtitle on the cover is "From November 2000 to March 2001, a time traveler from the year 2036 left a tale about our future and his past that lives today in cyberspace." It's basically just supposed to be excerpts from stuff that this supposed time traveler wrote on message boards in response to peoples' questions and challenges to his claims. Really really weird, lots of bad grammar and typos, weird things that I don't know where they were coming from. Like, he included a lot of the questions, but a lot of the time he didn't. So there would be a paragraph that was clearly a response to a question, but without the question, it just seemed like it was coming out of nowhere. And the cover, layout, and pictures at the end pretty much look like I published this book in my basement.
There's also some commentary from his mom. Like, he came to 1998 as an adult from 2036 and lived with his parents and himself (as a small child), so then after he left I guess it's supposed to be that his mom put this stuff together and then added some of her comments.
Really strange, kind of interesting, and included a little too much physics for me to really get into it. No narrative at all. I'm not sure that books based on message board discussions are really a good idea, but if you're looking for something realllllly different, give it a try, I guess.
Wikipedia on this dude is here.
And btw, none of his predictions have come true.
2 comments:
Been following the John Titor story for 3 yrs now.
There is strong evidence to suggest he was who he said he was, as too much of what he has said is slowly falling into place.
I brought the book 3 yrs ago for $20.00 off Amazon, but misplaced it soon after.
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and hope to interview Roy Kerr as he is a fellow Kiwi who lectures at Canterbury Uni here in Christchurch.
Keep watching CERN this year as the Large Hadron Collider comes online this July.
The entire idea of time travel is just baffling to me. It's the whole, how can you be yourself in the future or the past without doing things that actually alter the course of history? I can't get my mind around it for that reason, less than the physics of it. The idea of wormholes totally makes sense to me.
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