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Loading... The Time Traveler's Wife (edition 2004)by Audrey Niffenegger
Work detailsThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Clever plot, a bit too sentimental chick-lit. (  ) lxydis | May 11, 2013 |  I love this book with a passion! Love, art, time travel, fabulous twist - I only wish I'd written it! (  ) Angela.Kingston | May 1, 2013 | I stayed up all night reading this book. I simply could not put it down. It’s fascinating and compelling, especially for someone like me who likes time paradoxes. It’s about a man who has a rare genetic disorder which makes him unstable in time. He is constantly careening into other moments in time – meeting himself, meeting his wife at different ages, living his own story out of order. All this makes for a very three-dimensional life. At the same time, it’s clearly just one life, and quite finite. (  ) astrologerjenny | Apr 25, 2013 | Wonderful. I really loved the book and appreciated that it wasn't predictable. I felt like I was moving through time with Henry. ( ) c.archer | Apr 24, 2013 | recommended for: time traveler & romance & children's lives book fans, those who appreciate a good novel This has become one of my favorite books. I read it for my book club. It's an extremely intricate and complex time travel story of a man/boy and a woman/girl and those they know. A love story told through time. It can be challenging to figure this one out but it came together beautifully. I don’t want to give away any of the ingenious plot, as I found it so much fun to determine for myself what was going on. ( )1  Lisa2013 | Apr 19, 2013 |
 Um, I don't say this very often but I could NOT finish this book. I originally chose it as my 'April Book of the Month' because I was challenged to read a book that has been sitting on my 'to-read' list for WAY TOO LONG and also one that I had tried to read before but didn't get through. Feeling like I hadn't given this book a fair chance, it seemed like a no-brainer choice. However... it just isn't a book for me. I made it MUCH further than I have in the past (approx. 200 pages) but the fact that I am not 'craving' the read that I normally do, I know that I am done. This book will be entered into the vault, never to be seen again (at least by these eyes). I'm sad to add a book to the 'couldn't finish' list, but... life is too short to read something I am not enjoying!!  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.
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