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I read this as a kid almost 40 years ago and just finished reading it to my 11 year old son last night. I found that the characters of Meg, Calvin and Charles Wallace were great and the ideas around tesseracts captured my imagination again as they did my son. The action moves along relatively well and the ominous man with the red eyes and the disembodied brain known as IT were both great bad guys in the plot. Where I stumbled on this more mature (atheist) reading of A Wrinkle in Time is on the C
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Forget the movie. Read the book!
I openly admit to reading this book from the library in 1963 when I was eleven years old. Before that time I was a dedicated mystery buff à la Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books and then A Wrinkle in Time happened across my horizon and a whole new genre of sci-fi opened up to me. All of a sudden I was able to understand Einstein's theory of space time on a elementary level and science no longer seemed so tedious but interesting all thanks to Madeleine L'Engle.
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3.5. May have knocked a half star off for the narrator who wasn’t my fav. When she read Mrs Witch’s part it was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
This was a pretty good story, like none I’ve ever listened to before. It was a YA book but appeals to people of all ages as the author didn’t talk down to the audience.
Good vs evil. Science + spirituality and faith. And even teaches a bit about manners or proper behavior, all while telling a good yarn.
Three children meet three spiritual beings in the ...more
This was a pretty good story, like none I’ve ever listened to before. It was a YA book but appeals to people of all ages as the author didn’t talk down to the audience.
Good vs evil. Science + spirituality and faith. And even teaches a bit about manners or proper behavior, all while telling a good yarn.
Three children meet three spiritual beings in the ...more
Read this as a kid, of course; glad to revisit it as a fifty year old. It seems tailor-made now for Cold War latchkey children but yet easily speaks to new generations. It reminded me of Poltergeist this time around for some reason. I haven't seen the movie but Oprah, Reese and Mindy as the three Mrs. Ws tells me I do NOT need to see it.
I don't remember Meg being so sullen and angry but I found that to be a big plus; unlike most YA, there's nothing really special about her; her ordinariness and ...more
I don't remember Meg being so sullen and angry but I found that to be a big plus; unlike most YA, there's nothing really special about her; her ordinariness and ...more
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