Here by Richard McGuire

​      It’s a concept so simple that it’s intriguing. An execution so compelling that it holds your attention throughout. It’s a strange book because just as described it sounds about as exciting as…ok, well, as looking at someone’s living space.  The trick is, though, you’re doing it throughout the entire timeline, not just the space or the building it’s in, but of the world as we know it. And so it becomes a journey through time with the reader as an invisible time traveler witnessing all the changes. And that’s surprisingly more complex and cleverer that you might have anticipated.  
     I didn’t know a thing about this prior to finding it at the library, didn’t know it was a famous comic back in the day. Not even sure how it would have worked as such. But it works as a book as a terrific adventure in voyeurism.  People haunts the space like ghosts, but only occupy it for a short while, in a grand scheme of things. And the timeline takes us from the long ago past all the way into the future. It’s a fairly simple and fairly simply drawn but a very effective and surprisingly compelling read. Recommended.