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Summary: A WAY TO GET THE WRINKLES OUT IN YOUR DAY
Review: A WRINKLE IN TIME IS ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. THE CHARACTERS BECOME REAL AS YOU READ AND YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THE EMOTIONS THAT THEY DO. THIS BOOK WAS NEVER DULL. A GREAT PICK FOR A LONG WEEKEND WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO! THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SUSPENSE SO IF YOU ARE A FAN OF MYSTERY, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU...
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Summary: More than just a children's book
Review: More than 30 years ago, I came across A Wrinkle in Time on the shelf of my elementary school library. Reading it was a watershed event in my life, perhaps in part because I could identify so much with both the Meg and Calvin characters--with Meg because she didn't feel like she fit in, and with Calvin because his home life was so problematic. Also fascinating to me were the deep philosophical issues raised by the book, which are so ably presented at a level a child can comprehend. I remember clearly the feeling of hope that I had about my own situation in life after I finished reading the book. Ms. L'Engle truly authored a classic that will stand the test of time, and I am very much in her debt. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: One of the best books ever written
Review: I got this book from my brother when I was a little kid and I still enjoy reading it now at age 24. It is one of the best children's books ever written.
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Summary: A WRINKLE IN TIME is enjoyable for all ages
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is a classic story of good versus evil. It is enjoyable for young people because of its elements of science fiction and adventure. It also appeals to older people because of its underlying theme of love. I enjoyed it because of a combination of the two. The author Madeleine L'Engle has a very symbolic style of writing. Because of this, the book's central theme is clearly evident, and it is easy to discern the good characters from the evil. L'Engle uses many devices such as symbolism and foreshadowing to enhance and go more in depth into the themes. The main symbols of good are Meg, the heroine of the novel, the Mrs. W's, the Happy Medium, and Aunt Beast. The symbols of evil include IT, the Dark Thing, and the Man with the Red Eyes. These characters continually clash and create much of the conflict in the novel. Foreshadowing is used when Meg first arrives on Camazotz. She gets the feeling that something is too still, too perfect to be normal. This creates suspense and foreshadows the everpresent control of IT. The theme, as mentioned many times above, is good versus evil. However, evil is ultimately conquered by good because of the most important theme of all--love. Because of Meg's success at finding herself and finding the love within her, she destroys it and saves her father and the rest of Camazotz.
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time is awsome! By Tanner
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is an awesome book. In A Winkle in Time there is a girl named Meg. She is not a very good student at her new school. She gets in fights with people because they make fun of her family. People make fun of her brother because they think he is dumb. He is very smart for his age. His name is Charles Wallace. Meg and Charles Wallace meet a boy named Calvin.Meg, Charles, and Calvin meet three ladies named Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs.Who, and Mrs.Which.They tell them how to travel in the fifth dimension or tesser.They also tell them about a mysterious black thing that her father is fighting.Meg, Charles, and Calvin have to save Meg's father from an odd planet.I like A Wrinkle in Time because it was an exciting book that had a good plot and interesting use of words. The book was very good!
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Summary: My review
Review: A wrinkle in time is a great book for those with big imaginations, love fantasy, and are up for a generally fun and fast read.A wrinkle in time is set in modern day and focus' on a family and their struggle through life and eventually through time. Meg Murrys' father has been absent for a couple of years. She has no idea where or even when he is. She struggles through school and in her social life. Her only means of comfort are her little brother and her mother. When she encounters 3 old women who can help her find her father, her world turns upside down, literally as she is thrust through the expanses of space and time on a difficult quest to find her beloved father. The writing is unique and the story even more so. You will never find another like it. It requires extensive imagination. For all who love fantasy, this is your book. If you do not love fantasy you still may enjoy it. I am not particualarly a fan of fantasy myself so I only gave it four stars. I felt it was a wonderful book, but a little slow in a few moments during the book. But for the most part, great!! Well worth the read.
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Summary: Stays Great with Age
Review: "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a wonderful book for teen-agers, and as I just happily discovered, for adults, too. I had memorized when young the adventures of Meg Murry, her precocious brother Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe, and rediscovering them 20 years later is even more wonderful than the first time around. I always loved this book and its sequels. In "Wrinkle," which won a Newberry Award, Meg Murry, a misfit at school, finds that her little brother, Charles Wallace, has befriended three very strange women who have begun living in an abandoned shed near their property. Meg is not a happy girl. She's not popular at school, and doesn't do well in her classes. Her mother, a beautiful scientist, tries to hide her loneliness because her husband, the father of Meg, Charles Wallace and the twins, Sandy and Dennys, has disappeared and hasn't been heard from in quite some time. It all seems to have something to do with a "tesseract," which one of the strange ladies tells Mrs. Murry "does exist." Meg, Calvin and Charles, with the help of the three women have adventures in the quest of, yes, saving Dr. Murry. The tesseract (or a wrinkle in time and/or space) is a device of the story, but not its point. The novel, decidedly Christian, and perhaps a reaction to the Cold War during which it was written in 1962, is timeless and applicable to any religion or philosophy based on love and respect. The novel hinges on such love in a grand way, but it also communicates it in a thousand small ways throughout. Meg is a heroine to whom any junior high girl could relate very well; the love she feels at home, as well as from the crazy women and the friendship that grows between her and Calvin was an affirmation to me when I was "her age." I still love it.
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Summary: An enduring sci-fi classic
Review: Madeleine L'Engle's novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has as its central character Meg Murry, an academic underachiever who lives with her scientist mother and three siblings. In the book's beginning, the family is visited by a very curious character called Mrs. Whatsit. So begins an interplanetary science fiction adventure that will radically impact not only Meg, but her entire family. Together with Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" and the short stories of Isaac Asimov, this book was definitely one of the sci-fi masterpieces that most impacted me as a young person. And re-reading it many years later, I can say that "Wrinkle" remains a vital and enchanting piece of literature. While clearly in the sci-fi genre, the book has a fantasy flavor which only adds to its appeal. L'Engle's masterful descriptive language really brings to life the marvelous alien beings and other sights which our heroes encounter on their quest. "Wrinkle" is a very intelligent and literary book. Although L'Engle draws on the language of Christian theology in the creation of her fictional universe, her vision is inclusive and multicultural. Ultimately, it is the philosophical underpinning of this classic that is as gripping as the book's imaginative flourishes. "Wrinkle" is a cry against totalitarianism and a celebration of diversity; it's a book that says that those who are seen as different, as outsiders, have a special part to play in the grand scheme of things. Definitely recommended for both young people and older readers.
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Summary: wonderful for reading aloud
Review: My 8 1/2 year old son and I just finished A Wrinkle in Time, and although he was a little scared in parts (I admit I skipped over the chapter where they actually met IT because it was just too creepy for him), he loved the book and wanted to go right to The Wind in the Door next. I'm not a huge fan of science fiction, but Madeleine L'Engle's writing is so wonderful that somehow it doesn't feel like science fiction--kind of like C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. (And speaking of which, is it just me, or are there elements of Wrinkle that are very similar to That Hideous Strength?) Highly recommend.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: A dark and stormy night begins the adventure. Missing her father terribly Meg Murry goes to have a cup of hot milk, and finds her baby brother, Charles Wallace, already preparing it for both her and her mother, because he knows they are coming. He is strange that way. Sure enough, Mother does appear, and so does a visitor out of the temptest. Mrs. Whatsit. Their conversation is odd, ending in the words that tell them Tesseracts are real. This shakes Mrs. Murry terribly, as this was a secret theory of hers and her lost husband's. He disappeared ages ago, and no one knows what happened. After a terrible day at school, Meg and Charles to to visit with Mrs. Whatsit, and get her to return some stolen sheets. Along the way, they meet Calvin O'Keefe, an older boy who Meg instantly connects with, and they take him home for dinner. After dinner, Charles, Meg, and Calvin go outside, and suddenly, Mrs. Whatsit and her sisters, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which (who is immaterial) appear and whisk them off to another world. There, they explain that the tesseract is the fifth dimension, a wrinkle in time and space along which one can travel to go long distances. They have used it so that Meg and Charles can rescue their father, who is being held trapped by a great Evil that threatens to consume the universe. They give the children gifts and send them to another world, one controlled by the Evil where all individuality is consumed by IT. Charles tries to take it on in a challenge, and loses. Now a minion of IT, he takes Meg and Calvin to Mr. Murry who is held prisoner in a crystal. He urges them to also give their minds to IT, but they fight back, and Mr. Murry tesseracts them to safety on yet another world, one where the creatures have no eyes. There, they recover, and prepare for the final challenge that will either save or lose not only Charles Wallace, but possibly all of life itself. ***** This is a book that has held up over time and can still appeal to adults. With great depth and philosophy that may be beyond the grasp of the very young to whom it was originally slotted to be read by, the author gives much to think about. Adults can have their plane of thought expanded by re reading this or discovering it for the first time. Even if one does not get the deeper aspects, it is a fine fantasy tale, and hopefully, the tele movie that has been promised will live up to it. ***** Reviewed by Amanda Killgore.
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