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The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Start date: April 15, 2015

Finish date: May 15, 2015

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Aug 11, 2007 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: travel, fairytales-fantasy

It was a good read with a great ending but began to drag a bit toward the end...contains some brief sexual encounters between a couple if that is offensive to you.

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Jan 08, 2009 Steph S rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, audiobooks, 2009, library

I think one reader described this novel best when she labeled it "an enjoyable disappointment."

So many potentially great themes left unexplored makes this book a ramble of a romance novel. The author seizes every opportunity to show how hip she is, as if her third mention of The Violent Femmes would definitely convince me that she's supercool. Just in case you don't stay awake at night pondering her characters resemblance to Odysseus and Penelope, she points it out. And she just can't wait to te ...more

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Aug 24, 2007 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: american-as-apple-pie, book-club-rg, owned, page-to-screen, hot-lit, magic-sci-fi-fantasy, chicago-my-kind-of-town

I loved this book! It inspired a great deal of conversation in the Rory Gilmore Book Club. I thought it was a creative twist on an old idea (time traveling) and I thought the characters were richly drawn and the story beautifully told. I couldn't put it down. I loved the way the narrative switched between Henry's and Clare's perspectives. I loved the way it moved around in time, so that events would come together later. ...more

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Aug 30, 2008 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: popular-fiction

I think this story was really a beautiful love story. I loved how it was a new take on how love survives through all obstacles including time. The only thing I wish that was maybe addressed a little more was how it did kind of mess up Clare's life to at least have a vague idea of where she would end up. Overall I really liked this book and I think it's one of those stories that will stay with me for a while and that I will remember. ...more

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