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The Time Traveler's Wife
 

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is... (read more)

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Liked It

4 of 4 members found this review helpful.
Abbi G
  • Rated 5 stars

“This is one of my favorite books this year. There is a certain brilliance in the way Niffenegger arranges the story...the chaos of each event, the continual changing of perspectives. The actual structure of this novel is just as important as the writing itself. The confusion that inevitably strikes the reader after each episode of time travel is a powerful translation of the confusion and pain that inhabits each character. Though the characters face a phenomenon (time travel) for which we...”

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Didn’t Like It

2 of 2 members found this review helpful.
odysseedesreves
  • Rated 2 stars

“I really liked the concept but I didn't care for the book. It didn't draw me in and the ending dragged on. I didn't feel much for the characters, either. I'm glad I read it but I won't pick it up again.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.298971 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.181818 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Dene

    dene said:

    “beautiful.”

    posted 4 days ago
  • MahoganyRain

    mahoganyrain said:

    “I won't see the movie either. Movies always ruin very good books. Once I read the book I almost never see the movie.”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • Kristen Dawn K

    kristen dawn k said:

    “I loved every page of it and really wish Brad Pitt could have kept his hands off of it. I don´t think it is movie material, there is no way to show the whole complicated time jump story and the whole feeling of the story can´t be squished into an hour and a half. Besides, the casting sucks, the incredible Hulk as the sensitive Henry, puh-lease. I am not going to watch the movie, the story gives me a warm fuzzy "love shall overcome" vibe every time I read it and I don´t want that ruined by Hollywood antics. It is one of my favorite books and I would recommend reading it anytime.”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • c D

    c d said:

    “I am an escape reader. I do not read all the time, but when ever things are going wrong me for I pick up a couple of books and disappear for awhile. This book got me through so ruff times, its one of the few I will pick up and re-read. ”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • Kim

    kim said:

    “I never really do cry while reading a book, I did when I read this book. It's just heartbreaking, beautifully heartbreaking. Anyway - I did not know there'll be a movie! I'm not sure how I feel about that, honestly.”

    posted Wednesday, September 3 2008
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