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A review by csmoke85
About Time by Neil Hilborn
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I own ever book Neil has written.
His cadence and way of writing is impeccable. Nobody can make me cry writing about a robot, but Neil did in this book. He writes in the poem Opportunity, Wake Up! “Her: the NASA engineers called the rover her, affectionately referred to her as Oppy. Oppy, this little robot so far from home, was only supposed to last for two months, and here she was fifteen years later.” A poem about the rover Oppy who lived a longer than expected life, but ultimately did not last.
Not all of Neil’s poems are quite as tragic as this, but all have his stylistic writing and prose. I highly recommend this book and any of his other books to anyone who enjoys poetry or great writing in general.
His cadence and way of writing is impeccable. Nobody can make me cry writing about a robot, but Neil did in this book. He writes in the poem Opportunity, Wake Up! “Her: the NASA engineers called the rover her, affectionately referred to her as Oppy. Oppy, this little robot so far from home, was only supposed to last for two months, and here she was fifteen years later.” A poem about the rover Oppy who lived a longer than expected life, but ultimately did not last.
Not all of Neil’s poems are quite as tragic as this, but all have his stylistic writing and prose. I highly recommend this book and any of his other books to anyone who enjoys poetry or great writing in general.