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Summary: different
Review: what a uniquely different book about a romantic relationship. I really enjoyed this fresh aproach though the book is sad at times. Took me a little tocatch on to this time travel. But once I did I was captured.A couple of other books that are good reads: Nightmares Echo and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Summary: An ambitious book
Review: This book is ambitious in many fronts-- as a sublime love story, as a medical challenge and as an ethical dilemma. It suceeds, overall. It is terribly entertaining although it can be confusing at times. It is hard to keep precise track of what happened in Henry's life at different ages and that is very important to fully understand the book. I had to keep going back to earlier chapters to understand clearly. My main objection to the plot (and therefore I give it 4 stars) is how poorly developed and irrelevant some of the secondary characters became. First, Gomez. What really happened between he and Clare? What were her feelings for him? Then Kimy. She seems like such a strong female presence but is relegated to a very cookie-cutter role. What about Clare's brother Mark and his wife Sharon? They are mentioned throughout the years (along with their children) but we never really now much about what happened after they got married. I could go on and on. Of all of them, the most intriguing was Ingrid. I think the story could have benefited from a more detailed look at her and the misery that led her to suicide. I think a more detailed approach to some of these characters would have enriched the story without taking away the impact and relevance of the relationship between Henry and Clare. All in all, it was a good read. But it had the potential to be an unforgettable experience. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it falls short of that.
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic
Review: This novel is extremely sophisticated, particularly for a first-time author--it's inventive, creative, and engaging. I absolutely loved it, and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to sink down with a good book. I look forward to whatever Audrey Niffenegger decides to come out with next.
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Summary: An Interesting Premise....A Timeless Love Story
Review: I'm not a fan of science fiction (or time travel) books but this is definetly an exception. Wrapped within the interesting premise of time travel is a wonderful love story. I am the mother of three small children and an avid reader....but those two things don't go hand in hand. It's hard to get through an average size book let alone a book that is 518 pages long. I read this book in less than a week....so if that fact alone doesn't speak volumes as to how great this book is I don't know what would. My only criticism of this book is that the author sometimes goes a little bit too in depth about certain things. (Maybe that's why it's as long as it is). That is the only negative aspect of this book that I can think of. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!
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Summary: A great read!
Review: A great read! I truly enjoyed reading this It's a rarity these days to find an author capable of such good storytelling. The story is well written and very engaging, and despite the fact that it lost some momentum in the middle, I found myself eagerly turning pages to find out what would happen next. All in all, though this is not quite a perfect novel, it comes close.
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Summary: Like "Somewhere in Time"
Review: This book is very cleaver and reminded me of the way the movie "Somewhere in Time" mixed romance with time travel. I read it with "My Fractured Life" and "The Secret Life of Bees" and was very pleased.
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Summary: Best book this year
Review: I read about 150-200 new books each year in galley form, and of all the books I got at Book Expo this year, "Time Traveler's Wife" was my absolute hands-down favorite. It's exactly what you want in a book--poignant, touching, funny, and heartwarming. (If you're looking for a close second, the soon-to-be-released "True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters" is my second choice for this year.) Fern Reiss, author, "The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days"
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Summary: Unique Love Story
Review: Once I got to the middle of this book I couldn't put it down. The story weaves through time will keep you guessing about how and when things will happen. The characters are very memorable and you almost can feel the pain and joy they go through. I just loved the way the author brings you in out out of important moments in Henrys and Clairs life. It is a great love story, (but not in the cheesey sense) very well written, I laughed and cried and couldn't bear to finish it.
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Summary: A Disappointing Read
Review: I must have been reading a different novel than did the other reviewers on this site who gave the book rave reviews. While I don't think it was horrible by any means, I did find it an extreme disappointment and a fairly non-exciting read.
My complaint stems from the fact that the book is, at its heart, only a conventional love story. We are thus given 500+ pages about Henry and Clare's families, their school friends, how and where they grew up, etc. I didn't find any of this too interesting. Henry's "quirk" of time traveling seems to be tacked on as an afterthought, and was dealt with as imaginatively as if he had two different colored eyes.
Because Henry feels it is immoral to change the future, and that the past is predetermined by fate (and thus cannot be changed), what are we left with relative to his time travels? Not much. He doesn't (or cannot) use these travels to change his actions, to affect other's lives, to learn, etc. He wakes up naked and in strange places--I got that after the first two pages. These travels become just so many isolated incidents, with no real interweaving into Clare and Henry's current lives. The title leads one to believe that we will learn how his affliction affects Clare. The only examples I saw of that were of this kind: on their wedding day, Clare is worried that Henry will disappear--he does, but comes back in time; on the day she is to give birth, she is worried that Henry will disappear--he doesn't. Not very exciting stuff. I don't see any affect on their lives except for a major inconvenience and lots of yakking about it.
I think the author missed a good opportunity here. She did not give us a chance to understand this affliction, to feel how it affected the characters' lives, to have it be cause and effect on their relationship. For as interestingly as the time travel aspect was dealt with, the book might just as well have been called "The Allergy Sufferer's Wife".
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Summary: So-so
Review: Interesting idea, characters not very well developed, and a large, obvious, glaring (at least to me) plot error near the end that pretty much ruined the book for me.
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