I really liked this book, mostly because of how things were described and its randomness. I also really liked how it had a completely different way of time traveling. Rather than Billy just traveling as himself at his current age, where he could possibly meet himself at a different age, he travels so he IS himself at a different moment in his life. He also knows what it going to happen in every moment of his life, and there never really is a current moment in his life that he goes back to. He never lives is life in order and never tries to change things, and that just how it is for him. I also liked the idea that other planets/races perceive time differently, and while for humans it is just a straight line, for the Tralmalfadorians they can just be in whatever moment of their life they would like to. So its not such a big deal when people die. I think that this is just a really weird concept, that time is only a matter of perception. I wonder if this means we could time travel if we just change the way we think about time. I think that if that would possible, it would be a lot harder to make happen than it sounds. People just cannot think about Time in any different way. I think maybe why the Tralmalfadorians see time this way is because they are smarter, or they just know how to use more of their brain. Maybe we could be able to time travel, if we could just figure out how to use more of our brain power.
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