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Tourmalin’s Time Cheques

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(4,115 Sterne; 13 Bewertungen)

Peter Tourmalin is on a sea voyage back home to England from Australia, to return to his fiancee, and he is very bored. The fact that the time difference adds on extra hours to his boredom only makes it worse. So when he gets a unique opportunity to deposit his spare time into an account with the "Anglo-Australian Joint Stock Time Bank, Limited" he doesn't hesitate for long. By opening this account, he doesn't have to spend his spare time right away, but can withdraw it at any future date, when he wants a break. All he has to do is present a time cheque to any clock, and he is immediately brought back aboard ship to spend the time withdrawn.

Sounds perfect? Peter certainly thinks so, when on a dreary November morning in London, a little tired with his exacting fiancee, he presents his first cheque and gets to spend a sunny quarter of an hour aboard ship. However, things get complicated when it turns out the time withdrawn isn't in consecutive installments, but all mixed up, leaving Peter often with no clue of any preliminaries or his relationship with the person he finds himself with. Since he is almost always dropped in the middle of a conversation this can be tricky - especially since his encounters include tete-a-tetes with not one but two beautiful young ladies (never at the same time of course!)… And things only get more and more complicated... (Summary by Anna Simon)

F. Anstey was a pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie. (3 hr 32 min)

Chapters

00 - Preface

30:00

Read by Ruth Golding

01 - Tourmalin's First Cheque and How He Took It

20:51

Read by Anna Simon

02 - The Second Cheque

16:28

Read by Anna Simon

03 - The Third Cheque

16:05

Read by Anna Simon

04 - The Fourth Cheque

16:17

Read by Anna Simon

05 - Periodic Drawings

22:22

Read by Anna Simon

06 - Foil and Counterfoil

17:06

Read by Anna Simon

07 - The Culminating Cheque

17:16

Read by Anna Simon

08 - Paid In His Own Coin

20:31

Read by TriciaG

09 - Compound Interest

25:26

Read by TriciaG

10 - Dénouement

6:16

Read by Ruth Golding

11 - Epilogue

3:22

Read by Ruth Golding

Bewertungen

Good, Humous Fiction

(5 Sterne)

This was a very fun and funny story. The writer kept a good balance between reality and humor. That may be why, as I have seen expressed often, that good humor is a difficult genre in which to excel. The readers, as always, did a very good job, as I listened to this story for the second time. Thanks again for the work you do at Librivox and God bless you all.

Cute - if cliche - story

(4 Sterne)

Imagine if you were bored and could save the time for a later date. Would you? What would the results be? This story takes a tongue-in-cheek look at this concept. The story is both funny and dramatic. I liked it. The readers were mostly good. I think only one chapter was rough. Otherwise it is a very good story. Enjoy!

Fun Little Story

(4 Sterne)

A fun, light story that sucked me right in. I wasn't sure how he'd get out of the tangle he got himself into! A worthwhile listen.

Rollicking fun !

(5 Sterne)

Many complicated twists & turns combined with an prudently doled out sense of humor makes for a very enjoyable listen ! Very well read !!