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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18131.A_Wrinkle_in_Time?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="A Wrinkle in Time" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1202853583m/18131.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18131.A_Wrinkle_in_Time?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">A Wrinkle in Time</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/106.Madeleine_L_Engle">Madeleine L'Engle</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17871567?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! I forgot what a great book this is. I read the four Madeline L'Engle books when I was a kid, but it was C. S. Lewis that I read over and over again. "A Winkle in Time" is really a classic piece of children's literature though, and deserves much attention.
 
 To all of the normal readers out there, that's all I have to say. Read it again! It will only take you about two hours or so, and it is well worth it. 
 
 To the Lost Book Club peoples:
 
 There are a few things in this novel that might reflect on the Lost T.V. show. First, I mentioned how, like Stephen King's "The Stand," this book actually mentions another book on the Lost Book List. Actually, this book quote's Shakespear's "The Tempest." I haven't yet read "The Tempest," but it was the last play fully credited to the author, and although it wasn't a hit in its day, it is now considered a masterpiece, and perhaps his best play (at least according to Wikipedia.)
 
 So here are the quote's from "The Tempest" that occur in "A Wrinkle in Time." Both are recited by Mrs. Who:
 
 "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
 -Prospero, in "The Tempest"
 pg. 81 in "A Wrinkle in Time"
 
 "... For that he was a spirit too delicate
 To act their earthly and abhorr'd commands,
 refusing their grand hests, they did confine him
 By help of their most potent ministers,
 And in their most unmitigable rage,
 Into a cloven pine; within which rift
 Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain..."
 pg 101 in "A Wrinkle in Time"
 
 Without thinking to much on it, I thought that the second quote might be some referece to the character Jacob on Lost. He is kind of a mystery character at this point.
 
 Also, there is a quote later on in "A Wrinkle in Time" that is from the Bible." Although it is not on this Lost Book List, on the first list I saw, it was included. I need to go back and watch the first season (maybe this summer,) but I think that Locke either quotes or reads the Bible.
 
 "The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring nought things that are."
 1 Corinthians 1:25
 pg 201-2 in "A Wrinkle in Time."
 
 I haven't really thought of any correlation between Lost and this quote, but maybe because it could be related to any number of characters. (Locke, Ben,...)
 
 Okay, one more quick quote from the book. Meg, the main character of the book, comes across an alien species in her adventure. This alien cannot see, and has no concept of seeing. It considers such a thing to be primitive. It knows things without seeing them. Anyways, this alien gives this quote, which I think is pretty neat:
 
 "We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal."
 
 Kinda cool when you consider that the island cannot be seen from the outside. In fact, you could say that the people on the boat can not see it, but they know that it is there...
 
 The last thing in this book that might have relation to the series is actually quite a big part of the book. Actualy, it is practiaclly the basis of it. Meg's mother and father had speculated on the "Tesseract," which is a theory that allows one to travel great distances in a short period of time. Rather than traveling very fast, such as at the speed of light, "Tessering" is more of a connection of two places at the same time. There is a couple of pictorals on pg. 76 that explain it in a simple manner. However, it really only explains the distance part of it, and doesn't really explain the element of time. In physics, the fourth dimentson is time, and in the book "A Wrinkle in Time," the fifth dimension is a tesseract.
 
 So how could a tesseract be part of the Lost series? Well in the last few episodes, we have seen some people get off of the island by means of a helicopter. There was some sort of time delay between the island and the boat that nobody can really account for, however. Although this is perhaps the opposite of what happens in "A Wrinkle in Time," they both have properties of... abnormalities in time and space.
 
 Kinda weird! As is the show. 
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Wow! I forgot what a great book this is. I read the four Madeline L'Engle books when I was a kid, but it was C. S. Lewis that I read over and over again. "A Winkle in Time" is really a classic piece of children's literature though, and deserves much attention.

To all of the normal readers out there, that's all I have to say. Read it again! It will only take you about two hours or so, and it is well worth it.

To the Lost Book Club peoples:

There are a few things in this novel that might reflect on the Lost T.V. show. First, I mentioned how, like Stephen King's "The Stand," this book actually mentions another book on the Lost Book List. Actually, this book quote's Shakespear's "The Tempest." I haven't yet read "The Tempest," but it was the last play fully credited to the author, and although it wasn't a hit in its day, it is now considered a masterpiece, and perhaps his best play (at least according to Wikipedia.)

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message 1: by Lori

06/11/2008 06:25AM

Ryan, i take it you are a huge Lost fan, no?
I just reread this novel for Sawyers Book CLub on Myspace, and I have two sites that i created and moderate that both have Book Reading Challenges using books off the Lost Lit List...

Perhaps you would be interested in viewing them? Check out my profile to get the links for them.. who knows, you may end up joining and pointing out alot of things we are overlooking!