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Could barely put it down, as it contains four elements that I enjoy.
1. Set mostly in Chicago.
2. Light science fiction.
3. Sophisticated love story.
4. Quotes and passages from great literature and poetry.
1. Set mostly in Chicago.
2. Light science fiction.
3. Sophisticated love story.
4. Quotes and passages from great literature and poetry.
Beautiful and lovely and heart-wrenching.
I don’t know where to start. I liked this book a lot, and yet had some major problems. I read a lot of novels, and am generally having a hard time becoming bored with just a simple A to Z type story (see #21 above). It takes more than just a good story lately to really get me. This book pushes the limits on different, and I liked that. I am not sure the logic always worked and I had a hard time sometimes trying to figure out the pattern, but I like active reading. In some ways I liked the charac
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I found this story a bit difficult to jup into and once there was lost from time to time as the story jumped through time. Certainly a love story made from the stuff of legends, I struggled at times with the age difference of the time traveler and his wife when they encountered each other at various "jumps" that placed her far younger than his adult self. It does bring up the question, "what would we do if we had the opportunity to know our loved ones when they were children?"
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I really, really loved this book. I haven't seen the movie (I usually like to read the book first) but now I'm pretty interested in seeing it. I was so drawn in by the writing style and the crazy constant time traveling and the relationships. I really liked the characters and I mused over and over again "This is the author's first novel?!" Amazing. For those who want to know, there are some crude works peppered throughout the novel, but I didn't feel it was overpowering like some of the books ou
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Nov 21, 2009
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marked it as to-read-own
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