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Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Taylor
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2509
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1848310013
EAN: 9781848310018
ASIN: 1848310013
Publication Date: July 3, 2008
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 Very nearly a five start September 28, 2008
Roger D. Hyam
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been fascinated with passing time (if it does pass) and how our(my?) perception of it fluctuates. Steve does a really great job of not rocking any of my own personal prejudices whilst adding interesting insights so I can't help but like and recommend the book. This is a readable not a reductionist scientific book but neither is it "New Age" (thank God). It would have got five stars but I was a little thrown by the passages on precognition. It could have been hinted at as a possibility and would have strengthened the other arguments in the book but, because precognition is laboured a little, it tends to drag down rest. (Whenever I think/read about precognition I can't help thinking about the lottery. Even if no one can actually predict the number one would think that the stats would be skewed a little with millions of people playing it over years - and I don't believe they are).
Fascinating and Timely! November 14, 2007
Mr. A. A. Peake (UK)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
We all experience time. It is something that we are always aware of and yet it is a mystery. In this fascinating book Steve Taylor makes us re-evaluate exactly what time is for us on a personal, and psychological basis. Anybody interested in the mind and how it relates to reality will find this a terrific, challenging and informative read.
candidate for the book of the year August 17, 2007
Jo (Devon, UK)
48 out of 49 found this review helpful
This book is full of fascinating insights into why we experience the world the way we do, and in particular the way we experience different perceptions of time. It's one of those books which makes you look at familiar things in a new and fresh light. In particular, I was impressed with the section on time in different cultures, that explains why many indigenous peoples don't have any concept of time or any past or future tenses. Oh to live in one of those timeless cultures! But the book does describe how we can become less focused on time, and even transcend it to some extent. A very absorbing and even life-changing book.
Breakfast tv made me buy this book August 10, 2007
M. Sullivan (Ulverston)
39 out of 40 found this review helpful
I saw the author on BBC Breakfast whilst eating my cornflakes a couple of days ago. The issues he was talking about seemed interesting but accessible to a non-scientist, non-clever-person like me. And yes, it's a very enjoyable read. Simply laid out with each chapter taking you through to another level of how time can be stretched and shrunk depending on your perception and your circumstances. It's a simple idea well explained, illustrated with episodes from Mr Taylor's own life (as well as famous sports stars etc) that make the more clever-er concepts easier to understand. I'd recommend it. Weirdly, it made a train journey go extremely quickly. Which has to be a good thing!
fascinating and extremely readable August 4, 2007
Howie
77 out of 78 found this review helpful
I did read this book very quickly but it felt like very little time passed while I was reading and now I understand why. As the book points out, absorption makes our experience of time seem to contract. While I was reading I recognised so many experiences from my own life and found myself continually in agreement. The author puts forward a very coherent theory which explains the different perceptions of time we experience in a variety of situations. As such it is extremely thought-provoking and plausible. Later the theories becomes more speculative but still plausible and stimulating, dealing with different states of consciousness and unusual experiences of time slowing down or disappearing. All the way through, even when dealing with quite complicated ideas the book is always very easy to read. You're carried along with the energy of the writing and the enthusiasm for ideas. At the end I feel inspired to try to live my live in a different way, making more time for new experience and trying to live in the present and appreciate each moment.
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