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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: "A Wrinkle In Time" is a exciting science fantasy read by Madeleine L'Engle It is the best book I have ever read. Meg, the main character, is eccentric and smart, but feels awkward and out of place at school. When her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace, a neighbor boy Calvin O'Keefe, and herself meet Mrs Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, they are catapulted into a galactic adventure where they meet oodles of outlandish enemies. The book was entertaining, and was so engaging that it was imossible to put down. Read this book ASAP!
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Summary: Love, Fantasy, and adventures.
Review: Have you wondered if there are more dimensions? Is it possible that in the book "A Wrinkle in Time" Charles and Meg's father is lost in another dimension? After working with the government, heir father became missing. He has been missing for years when three mysterious old women come into Meg and Charles life, and new hope is brought into their lives. The three mysterious old women tell Meg, Charles and their friend Kevin about a fifth dimension that their father discovered. This dimension is used to travel to different planets instantly. After telling them about the fifth dimension, the group sets out to find Meg and Charles father, and destroy the evil that captured him. There are many different reasons why this is an amazing book. One reason is that the author Madeleine L' Engle developed the characters background fully. Also the plot of the book is very thoughtful. It is laid out in a way where you think you know how its going to end, but how it ends is surprisingly different. Younger children will especially like this book. The book makes you think of new concepts that you wouldn't have thought about. With a good imagination, the story can become even better! Love and fantasy is filled in this story, which makes a it fantastic book for any child or adult.
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Summary: Well...
Review: Well, I HAD to read this book for school. At first, it was rather boring and so0 difficult to get in to! I found it incredibly boring, but then slowly the plot got better! Calvin made the story a bit better. But, with all the dimensions, god that made it seem MUCH MORE COMPLICATED! I really was confused!
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Summary: This book is good
Review: Reading this book was an exciting adventure through time and space. In this book a young girl, her brother, and a strange old lady go looking for her lost father butt get stopped by many aliens along the way. They travel to many galaxies just to find out her father has left. On every page another adventure awaits them butt they won't stop till her father is found.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: This book was absolutely amazing. It kept me interested until the very end. I cannot believe the imagination of Madeleine L'Engle. I would never have been able to dream up this idea in a million years. The characters seemed so real, as though they actually exist, but at the same time, you can never imagine these events happening. Ms. L'Engle, if you ever read this, I'm begging you to write more books, especially about Vicki Austin and her gift of kything.(By the way, if you haven't read ahead into the series, Meg and Calvin get married and have seven kids. It's very interesting, don't you think?)
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Summary: After all that time, still a splendidly unwrinkled story!
Review: "It was a dark and stormy night." In her 1962 Newbery Medal winning novel "A Wrinkle in Time", Madeleine L'Engle uses this cliched opening to tell an uncliched tale about time travel, a tale that itself has marvellously stood the test of time. The protagonist Meg is a rather plain and ordinary looking girl from a rather extraordinary family. Meg's father and mother are brilliant scientists, and her father has been away for a considerable time on a secret government mission. But things start happening when that "dark and stormy night" brings the other-worldly Mrs. Whatsit to Meg's home, with her mysterious comment: "by the way, there *is* such a thing as a tessseract." (p18). A tesseract, we discover, is a fifth dimension which enables instantaneous travel to different places in the universe (p72). Meg, her genious five-year old brother Charles Wallace, and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe, are joined by Mrs. Watsit and her two companions, the classic-quoting Mrs. Which and the stammering Mrs. Who (whom Calvin later describes as "Guardian angels! Messengers of God!" p179) in a quest to rescue Meg's father. The travellers from earth come to discover that Meg's father is in the center of a "grand and exciting battle" (p82), a cosmic battle between good and evil, fighting the Dark Thing which also threatens planet earth with its evil: "That is why your planet is such a troubled one." (p81) The wrinkle in time takes them to the planet Camazotz, which seems to be a play on the word "comatose" because all its inhabitants are victims of thoughtless conformity controlled by one mind, the IT (p132). Charles Wallace too falls under the spell of the enemy and IT's manipulating mind (p126). With the help of the three Mrs. Ws, can Meg and Calvin rescue both Meg's father and brother? Meg can only succeed if she recognizes the saving power of love (p194). As a Christian, L'Engle is clearly using the cosmic battle against the Dark Thing as a metaphor of the battle between the kingdoms of Christ and Satan, with an explicit reference to John 1 that Jesus is the light shining in the darkness (p82). There are a few peculiarities, such as the inclusion of the occult in the form of the Happy Medium and her crystal ball on the side of good (p78ff) and the facade of witchcraft employed by the three Mrs Ws, as well as the bizarre list of humans who have fought on the side of good (p82). But on the whole, astute readers familiar with the Bible will find much deep spiritual meaning in the imagery and language that L'Engle uses. Charles is vulnerable because "he trusted too much to his own strength." (p155) Despite her weaknesses, Meg is commissioned to rescue Charles because "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." (p189) "But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." (p78) The apparently blind Aunt Beast says: "We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen." And Meg's rejection of common scepticism about her Father's return ("Why don't you face facts about your father?") resembles the attitude that the Bride of Christ can have to her Bridegroom's return: "As long as she says Father *is* coming home, then I'll believe that." (p23) Meg's mother shares another pearl of wisdom about the humble attitude of believers: "I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." (p41). Although the profound religious depth gives L'Engle's stories a lasting significance, the facts of theology never overpower the excitement of the fiction. When combined with identifiable characters, an imaginative and fantastic world, and an exciting plot, this combination of theology, science and fantasy is a formula for success. It's little wonder that "A Wrinkle In Time" has proven to be timeless, and worthy of being placed alongside Lewis' Narnia Chronicles, and above Harry Potter. This story may be forty years old, but it hasn't worn out its pleasure for either children or adults, and after all that time is still a winning story without wrinkles!
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Summary: A classic fantasy novel
Review: I had recently needed to read a fantasy novel, and I thought that this would be a good choice. I remember enjoying this as a younger child. When i read this book for a second time, it had a whole different twist to. I know that this time it was much better. It is a great story of three young children, Meg, Calvin, and Charles, that venture out into space to find Meg and Charles' father. It would be a shame to give the story away, so i choose to just say that is a good fun read. I appreciate it and hope that you do to!
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Summary: Still a winner
Review: I first read this book around age 10, like so many. Even then, it had been out for around a decade, but it hadn't become dated. It wasn't lost in some early 60's vortex of overly sweet sentimentality. The story of struggle against your insecurities, against what people think of you -- it's still relevant. I reread it a few times over the years and even as an adult, it made me remember those awkward adolescent times. I identified with Meg, and still do. My daughter, who much to my dismay, isn't much of a reader, has never "enjoyed" reading a book. She's 10 and had a mandatory book report, so I pushed this book (probably too hard) at her, hoping she would identify with Meg as well. She's the odd girl out right now, and I thought ...maybe. Much to my delight, she read it quickly, proclaiming it the best book she had ever read, and she enthusiastically wanted to march out and buy the others in the set. Maybe, we've finally found something she wants to read. I guess it's still relevant 40 years after it was first published. So, if you've got a 10 year old, especially a 10 year old girl who feels out of place, gently give them a copy of this book. Amazing things might happen.
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time
Review: Everything seems mostly normal for Meg and her brother Charles Wallace. Then she meets Mrs. Whatsit and a new friend, Collin. Meg never knew where her father dissappeared to. Little does she know she'll need the help of a new found friend and Mrs. Whatsit to save her father. In another dimension where everything is the same. What will Meg do? A Wrinkle in Time is a strange thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: a wrinkle in time write up
Review: Everything seems mostly normal for Meg and her brother charles wallace. Then she meets Mrs. Whatsit and a new friend,Collin. Meg never knew where her father dissappeared to. Little does she know she'll need the help of a new found friend and Mrs. Whatsit to save her father. In another dimension where everything is the same. What will Meg do? A wrinkle in time is a strange thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.
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