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 A long wait Nov 07, 2009
I've waited a long time for this book. I've nearly stopped reading novels mostly because they just seem so very much alike. This book is most certainly not the run of the mill, easily predictable story line. As I was reading,I was just getting to the point that I was beginning to wonder if this book was going to hook me--then it did. From that point on,I couldn't put it down. First, the author clearly knows what he is talking about (something different). He did his homework. Second, it's written about the midwest and it actually sounds like someone from the midwest is telling the story. Third, there are simply delightful quirks in the story. Fourth, the author's writing is amazingly expressive. Fifth, and certainly the most important, this author knows how to tell a story. In fact, this is the primary strength of this novel. It is a great, well told story. My only complaint--it kept me up. I didn't want to quit reading until it was done. Cost me some sleep.
Before the cd, IPOD and TV family stuck in a time so unfamiliar yet in their own home! Nov 02, 2009
I was amazed at how the hard working family of the 21st century is thrust into the lives of people living in their community 100 years earlier. Like so often happens when people face crisis, lives are changed. This novel paints a small town picture that includes 100 year old small town solutions to child abuse. A magic act that joins the magician with one unlikely member of the audience brought tears to my eyes. The description of 1909 evangelist Billy Sunday makes you feel like you are in that big tent, surrounded by passion and uncomfortablely uncertain about the full meaning of what is happening in the lives of those who are most important to you. COMPLETELY RESTORED was a 1909 world series home run for author, Bob Kerr. I want more from this guy.
 Great combination of history and suspense Oct 31, 2009
This time travel suspenseful novel pulled me in immediately with "I don't actually believe it and I lived through it." The "I" is Joe Murphy whose family has finally completed the restoration of a Victorian house on Main Street in Marshalltown, Iowa. The author did a great job of transistioning Joe and his family into a time 100 years earlier. Wife Linda puts on the dress decorating her bedroom mannequin and unframes pre-crash certificates to cash into spending money. Off she goes shopping for everything the family needs to live in 1909. Then the family meets Dr. Silas W. Fischer who provides both family comfort and suspense all through this first novel. You can tell the author loves history and did a lot of research to make the setting believable by including Cap Anson, Rev. Billy Sunday, and magacian T. Nelson Downs. Also enjoyable was the change in family dynamics as the TV, DVD, and computer were put into storage. I certainly look forward to this author's next novel. LaVonne H.
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