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The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Start date: April 1, 2009

Finish date: April 30, 2009

Why we're reading this: Voted on by the group for April 2009 Group Read.
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Mar 01, 2009 Angela Randall rated it it was amazing

Shelves: i-own, we-own, ange-recommends, bbc-top-100-books, favourites, sci-fi, fiction, essential-reading, guardian-1000-best-novels, guardian-best-scifi-and-fantasy

From the first few paragraphs I was hooked. I was nearly 200 pages in before I even thought about getting myself a drink and making myself comfortable. A few sleepless nights later and I was back from this strange journey.

This story is absolutely lovely and will make you cry more than you thought possible. It's part sci-fi and part love story and I highly recommend it for fans of either genre.

The only real criticism I have is that it felt sometimes as if Audrey Niffenegger was trying to prove ...more

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Apr 07, 2009 Deohannah rated it liked it

Shelves: summer-break-2009, the-movie-was-better-than-the-book

This book is one of the most difficult books I have to rate but I settled for three stars anyway, okay, my explanation goes...

I was hooked by it's storyline, which was quite impressive. And I hate to say that the following would sound very negative but I'd like to voice my negative opinions for someone to just realize the positive bits I'm not going to mention because I'm afraid I would make this review very long.

DEEP BREATH...

The characters almost sound like each other. Sometimes, it's difficul This book is one of the most difficult books I have to rate but I settled for three stars anyway, okay, my explanation goes...

I was hooked by it's storyline, which was quite impressive. And I hate to say that the following would sound very negative but I'd like to voice my negative opinions for someone to just realize the positive bits I'm not going to mention because I'm afraid I would make this review very long.

DEEP BREATH...

The characters almost sound like each other. Sometimes, it's difficult to distinguish Clare and Henry because they sound alike. I mean, there are no special characteristics except their likes and dislikes about philosophy, literature, music, etc.
And it disappointed me in a way because I hoped there would be something deeper than that.

Oh, I hate the name-dropping part! I really hate it that I skipped most of it. I know the author wants to say that he loooves punk music, or art, or literature considering his great knowledge about it, but engraving it to a character, who wants to blab and blab about it? Puh-lease, I already get the picture.

And Clare? Flat. Narrating in the first person is a good thing because it can express what the character is thinking, which makes her more like a total person, in other words, she becomes almost alive. But I can see the author has failed to make Clare the ideal character, which is bad because isn't the title all about her?

When I got to the middle part, I was panicking because I wanted to finish the book without losing my interest on it, which by the way, was starting to weaken considering the boring scenes which consists of headache-causing shifts of past, present, and future time, and conversations from two first person's point of view (Henry and Clare), which I thought wasn't really going anywhere- and I know that if I'll stop I won't be able to grasp the feel of the narratives or get something major plot turn. So I read... and read until it was already 1am... and I was sensing that finally, finally... it is starting to interest me so much, and the loose ends are going to be knot (I'm sad to tell you, it didn't) and it was breathtaking to just stop in the middle of something so I decided to read, and I finished at 4:50am which was not a good thing, considering I was obliged to wake up at 6am!

I'm about to say something off-tangent and may be a spoiler here:

Yeah, the ending disappointed me... it was just hanging there, impossible to grasp and you just kept thinking, "Now what?" and then there was something annoying about seeing someone who has died like a ghost, I mean, imagine... you're old, in a retirement home, and this person you love who has died 40 years ago just approaches you and yeah... whatever... spoiler... blah blah blah...

Read it at your own risk... but don't blame me if you would come to hate it and if you'll luuuurve it, no one's going to shoot you for that... as in no one's going to shoot me for giving this so-called "it" book 3 stars.

Maybe, one day, someday, I'm going to reread this and see it in a different light, and then I'd come to realize that this was sooo goood after all. But reading this again is remotely possible considering I have to read gazillions of books before I get back to this. Or maybe not that many, but I don't think I'll be able to find time in reading this again. I don't know why I have the urge to reread this. MAYBE it's got something to do with almost everyone loving the book and hugging it too tightly, and the crying and the almost relating- "almost" here being: they don't have partners who are time travelers.

So there, that's not all I've got to say but my fingers are already aching... Hahaha... ...more

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Feb 11, 2009 David C C. rated it it was amazing

one of the best and most interesting love stories I have ever read.

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Aug 01, 2009 Kaustubh rated it liked it

the only reason i picked up this book was its awesome reviews and interesting storyline ...

very innovative way of narrating a love story (2 sides of a coin )
got a bit draggy in between ...

all in all .. okay read .. 2.5/5

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Mar 10, 2009 Krista mallet rated it it was ok

starting for the third time....hopefully i will make it through this time!!!

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Jan 29, 2009 Inna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 1000-guardian-read, 1000-guardian-scifi-and-fantasy, 100-bbc

Feb 01, 2009 Vada Taylor rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle-to-read

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Feb 26, 2009 Aine O'Mahoney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club, loved

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