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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I really despised the characters and the premise was poorly executed. Time traveling in the nude to meet your future wife when she is six is just not a great plot premise. Some of the twists and turns are hard to follow. Henry is a shallow sociopath. Some of the dialogue seems stilted. The writing wasn't bad overall, but the author name- dropped in all to obvious attempt to be both cool and cultured. I was tempted to abandon the book but I kept hoping that it would get better. I doesn't. I would not recommend it to anyone. I gave it two stars because I found some events in the latter part of the book fairly interesting.
The triumph of the book is the triumph of normality, of setting up a decent family life even if you are constantly dissappearing from it, of being loyal to somebody with what Niffenegger finally explains as a genetic dysfunction - chrono-displacement, as she calls it. "The Time Traveler's Wife" can be an exasperating read, but as a love story it has its appeal: Refreshingly, the novel portrays long-term commitment as something lively and exuberant rather than dutiful and staid, evoking both the comforts it brings us and the tribulations we learn to live with. Niffenegger, despite her moving, razor-edged prose, doesn't claim to be a romantic. She writes with the unflinching yet detached clarity of a war correspondent standing at the sidelines of an unfolding battle. She possesses a historian's eye for contextual detail. This is no romantic idyll. About halfway through Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, you realize you're going to be devastated. You love the characters, you're deeply involved in their lives, you can sense tragedy coming and you know it's going to hurt. But there's no way you can stop reading... Niffenegger structures the novel clearly enough that the timelines never get tangled, and her writing is so strong you'd keep going even if you did get confused. Belongs to Publisher SeriesFischer Taschenbuch (16390) Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future. No library descriptions found. |
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Trust your instincts y'all. I knew it was a bad idea trying this again after having donated my original copy about... 5 years ago?
Just not a fan of the writing style & story. I am, however, very excited to see the new adaptation will have Kate Siegel in it.