Somewhere in Time Book

A screenwriter with an inoperable brain tumor becomes obsessed with an actress from the turn of the century and uses hypnosis to travel back in time to meet her.

I've been reading a fair bit of Richard Matheson lately and stumbled upon this at the used bookstore. After leaving my kindle at work over a long weekend, I pulled the trigger on it.

Firstly, the first 33% of this book was an uphill climb. Wearing snow shoes. With a safe strapped to my back. Richard Collier finds out he has a brain tumor and decides to go for one last road trip. He stays at a hotel, becomes infatuated with an actress from 1896, and travels back to the 1890's with self hypnosis. It takes over 100 pages for him to get there. Also, time travel via self hypnosis?

I had good intentions but life's too short to push through something I'm barely interested in, even if the author is responsible for most of the great Twilight Zone episodes. I may return to it at some future date.