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Fabulous read!!
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is the beautiful story of librarian Henry De Tamble and his soul mate Clare Abshire. Henry suffers from chrono displacement disorder, a genetic mutation that causes him to leap frog back and forth in time. The book is written in the alternating viewpoints of Henry and Clare, from their first meeting in the meadow near Clare's childhood home (Clare is just 6 years old, while Henry is 36,) through all their experiences in "real time" as adults.
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Truth be told...I read the first chapter or so and said "what the f bomb?! Someone better make sense of this jib jab asap or I'm doomed to slog thru it." (Damn right I'm a book warrior...I soldier on no matter howe boring, insipid or plagaristic, obviously, just look at my track record.
Then...it all starts to piece together in your brain...mainly because at first you fight the rediculous notion, then with enough persistence and persuation and detail it starts to make sense...which creeps me out. ...more
Then...it all starts to piece together in your brain...mainly because at first you fight the rediculous notion, then with enough persistence and persuation and detail it starts to make sense...which creeps me out. ...more
This was a good book, but I had a hard time believing the love. It was weird how their love developed. It had a chicken/egg scenario. A major theme in this book was that time is set it stone. It's all already happened, all of your decisions have already been made, so the future is set in stone. . . I wasn't crazy about that.
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This is actually an amazing book. I certainly wasn't expecting that. Often when people praise a book (or anything) that much, it's not very good at all, at least in my opinion (example: Titanic). But this was actually REALLY good, especially for a first novel.
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I really enjoyed reading this book. It's very original and put together intelligently. Though I'm not particularly interested in time travel, I find the story absorbing and beautiful. Heart-breaking and incredibly romantic at the same time.
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I liked it a lot. It was just a tiny bit confusing at the begiining because of all the time jumps hitting you without a warning. I kept wondering if I got the time sequences right. In the end that did not matter much anyway.
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Mar 08, 2012
Kelli V Spann
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