The Time Keeper

The Time Keeper

2011 • 240 pages

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Average rating3.6

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In The Time Keeper, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years.

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Choppy format and not a great story.

March 7, 2022

Took way too long to get to the point and was annoyingly predictable 

July 2, 2023

I have to say, now my favourite book. For possibly the first time a book has truly made me think about how I view life and, in this case, particularly time.

May 11, 2016

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