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Liked It “I listened to the Audio version. I liked it. I am looking forward to the movie. Science Fiction and Love Stories are good combinations.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “This was one of the most ridulous stories that I have ever come across. HATED IT! I don't understand what all of the hype is about!” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“This was one of the most ridulous stories that I have ever come across. HATED IT! I don't understand what all of the hype is about! ”
Jayne wrote this review Sunday, September 27 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Ugh, if I hadnot been listening to this on CD and driving to NC and back, but reading it, I would have dropped it after the first three chapters or so. ”
Mary T wrote this review Sunday, September 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I listened to the Audio version. I liked it. I am looking forward to the movie. Science Fiction and Love Stories are good combinations.”
mark b wrote this review Thursday, August 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was a really fun book to read. My wife Erin and I both enjoyed it very much. It will be interesting to see if it can be converted into a reasonable movie.
Joe T wrote this review Wednesday, August 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
You have to be willing to suspend disbelief with respect to the time travel in order to enjoy this book. There are causal loops which will bother people who read a lot of books which contain time travel. It can be excused in this book because the story is really about the romance and not about time travel per se.”
“I read and listened to the audio on this one. Sometimes separate, sometimes together. I found it easier to have the book in hand to refer back to dates and years, etc since the story is absolutely NOT linear.
Nancy E wrote this review Tuesday, July 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Enjoyed the complexity of the story. Keeps you guessing. Anxious to see how the movie will compare. ”
“One of the best books ever!”
Paulette W wrote this review Monday, July 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Good story with a slightly confusing start since I am not use to impossible story lines.”
Sierra wrote this review Friday, June 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book has one of the most unusual premises I've read. For me, the theme became How much would I want to know about my life, and the lives of my loved ones? How can it change - or CAN it change? - the way I live my present?
Laura B wrote this review Friday, June 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The story of Henry and Claire is the limitless bounds of love. They love each other across time. It is told with humor and realism in a very unreal setting, for the most part avoiding sentimentality. It also had me wrestling with the idea of one, inevitable love, a theory I don;t personally ascribe to.
The relationships with their friends and family, both who know the secret and those who don't, are interesting and well-developed. The torture Henry lives with knowing sometimes what is going to happen and sometimes not. was heart-wrenching. Having to constantly re-live the death of his mother was brutal, but tempered by getting to know her before he was born and at a young age.
Ad I came near the end of the story, I realized I was constantly experiencing the book as Henry's story, even though it is The Time-Traveler's WIFE. I then began to think about the book with Claire at the center, and how that change in focus affected the story for me. I thought a lot about what this life had been for her.
I think I would have really enjoyed reading, rather than listening to this book. The physical act of reading has an appeal with certain pieces of literature. Touching a book, smelling ink and paper, carrying it with me everywhere, are central to who I am as a voracious reader. Note to self: choose audio books carefully - choose ones I want to absorb rather than savor.”
“sad ending, although the whole plot was good, slightly confusing at first but very interesting and consistent”
Veronica L wrote this review Sunday, May 31 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Fabulously written.”
Christina D wrote this review Tuesday, May 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
