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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time
Review: This book is a good, fantasy book. It has a lot of detail and at some points can be confusing but it all makes sense in the end. Like when the kids are off on their own they meet a lot of new people it is very confusing because they are interacting more with their minds and it gets harder to understand. "Charles Wallace's clear blue eyes focused on the red ones of the man in the chair." That line from the book is where it get confusing because Charles Wallace is basically being hypnotized by the man and is talking and doing what the man wants him to. Other than that this is a good book about dreams and acheiving them.
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Summary: An Unexpectedly Well-Written Tale
Review: I will admit that this book first threw me for a loop. About 60 pages in, I realized I had only the faintest idea of what was going on. All I knew at that point was that Meg and her brilliant-but-nobody-realizes-it brother, Charles Wallace, were close companions and that Calvin O'Keefe becomes a third partner in the duo's attempt to discover the secret about their father's disappearance. For a book that was supposed to be written for 12-year olds, this 20-year old wasn't getting a very good grasp of it.But then the book started to settle into itself (or maybe I started setting into the book). Now a triple threat, Meg and Charles Wallace and Calvin embark on a dangerous journey throughout the galaxy with three mysterious helpers, known only to the reader and to the trio as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. It wasn't until I finished reading this book and thought about it for a while that I started to realize just what a great read it actually was. The author of the book, Madeleine L'Engle, had written a deceptively cunning tale that had me on the edge of my seat practically the entire time. That doesn't happen very often. Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin travel to many different worlds in this book, aided by their mysterious helpers. I really liked the planet the trio visited where everything is happening in sequence - all the kids are outside bouncing balls at the same time, for example. It's odd and creepily eerie. That's the best word I can use to describe a good portion of this book; it was eerie, but in the very best sense of the word. I won't go into specific details about what happens in this book. Let me just say that is definitely a challenging, yet rewarding read. L'Engle calls upon the reader to really stretch the limits of the imagination, and this is where the greatest achievement in her work comes from. This book will easily encase you in all its complexity and wonder. Even if you don't realize it until after you've read the thing, like me. L'Engle has written a very engrossing book that touches on many thing that mean so much to people - searching for a lost family member, making sacrifices and the power of love. These three themes especially are threads woven throughout the book, and never more evidently than towards the end. I literally thought that what I wanted to have happen, what was supposed to happen, wasn't going to . . . and anyone who has read the book knows exactly what I'm talking about. If you want a book that is going to challenge you, give this book a read. It challenged me, and that's coming from a future English major! There's a reason it was given a Newberry Medal in 1963. I have no regrets after reading it. In fact, I'm looking forward to reading the three sequels that come after it. Kudos to Madeleine L'Engle for penning such a wonderful book. It was an unexpectedly well-written tale.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I first came across the work of Madeleine L'Engle when I had to read a book for a school project, I ended up choosing a "Wrinkle in Time." This started an almost addiction with her books. I later tracked down this boxed-set and I continue to collect her books 3 years later. She is one of the best authors I have ever read, and I read a lot, so if you haven't read her, do. You won't regret it!
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Summary: beware non christians wherever you are
Review: This book was recommended to me as a wonderful children's book with a sci-fi time travel theme. I was unprepared for the heavy christian indoctrination. I found this to be very disturbing and off-putting. It should be marketed as a Christian book.
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Summary: IT
Review: This was an ok book. It had its good parts. This book is about a girl named Meg and her friends and family. One dark and stormy night Meg, her little brother, Charles, and her mother came down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disterbing stranger. He told them "wild nights are my glory," and then he brought up a tesserat, whitch is a wrinkle in time, he was asking them if he could sit down then he left. After that, that wawhen the whole story got started.
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time,12-17-01
Review: There is mystery, mysticism, a felling of indefinable, brooding horror.It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, and Charles Wallace, her little brother and their mother are in the kitchen for a midnight snack when a most disturbing visitor arrives.
" Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly strangers tolled them. "I just got caught in a downdraft, and got blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment and I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." Meg's Father had been experimenting with this dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outsmart the forces of evil will bump into their heart journey through space.
Read this nonfiction book because it is a great book!!!!
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time,12-17-01the review is from Jessica Ortiz
Review: There is mystery, mysticism, a felling of impalpable, dark horror.It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, and Charles Wallace, her little brother and their mother are in the kitchen for a midnight snack when a most disturbing visitor arrives.
" Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly strangers tolled them. "I just got caught in a downdraft, and got blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment and I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." Meg's Father had been experimenting with this dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outsmart the forces of evil will bump into their heart journey through space.Read this great book!!!!
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Summary: My Review for A Wrinkle In Time
Review: I really like this book and recomend it to all adults and children who like adventurous or fantasy books. I would read agian any time and think it is worth buying for your own home!
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Summary: Favourite fiction books of all time!
Review: I first read the Wrinkle in Time books when I was 8 years old in our grammar school library on the high recommendation of my classmate. Completely hooked by the wonderful storyline, I convinced my parents 2 years later to buy me some nice paperbound editions of my own. In my 3rd year of college I finally parted with them to someone who'd never been introduced to this amazing trilogy and begged my mother to buy me a replacement set for Christmas. She did, and to-day, on my 23rd birthday, they remain my treasured favourite books of all time! Now when is that movie going to be made?!?
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Summary: My Full Report...It's Too Long!!!
Review: Megan Murry is the oldest child in the Murry family. She is tall, skinny, pretty, and smart even though she doesn't think of herself in that way. Whey anyone ever makes fun of anything she believes in, she usually pounds them into a pulp with a sudden rage. She is very important in the story because she is the one that rescues her father. She also is important because most of the story revolves around her.
Another important character is Charles Wallace Murry. He is one of Megan's three brothers. He is short but very smart. He is only five years old but really likes his sister. Megan thinks that he has special powers of reading one's mind because he always knows when to get up and make hot chocolate for her and her family, but Charles just says that it's so easy to tell what you want just from the way you look. He is very important in the story because of his mental ability.
The third character that I will discuss, is named Calvin. He is a tall, skinny, and muscular athlete. He thinks Megan and Charles are both really lucky to have such a loving and beautiful mother because his is mean to him and none of his 11 brothers care about him at all. He is important in the story because he can communicate well.
Three other very important characters are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. They are the three people that start Meg, Charles, and Calvin on their journey to save Mr. Murry. They are also trying to help fight the black thing on Earth. The three "witches" say they are made out of the same stuff as dreams. Megan really likes the witches and thinks of them as heroes because they seem magical even though they say it is just wisdom.
An important event in the story is when four of the main characters are introduced in the beginning during a hurricane when Meg wakes up. Megan goes downstairs from her bedroom in the attic to the kitchen and Charles is waiting for her with hot coco. Meg talks to Charles for a while but then Mrs. Murry comes downstairs. Charles acts as if he was expecting her and gives her a mug of coco too. Then he makes sandwiches. All of a sudden, the door opens and Mrs. Whatsit comes in from the rain all soaked and asking for directions. Before she leaves, she says to Mrs. Murry that there is such thing as a tesseract. This upsets Mrs. Murry and she goes back upstairs.
A third main event is when Meg, Charles, Calvin, and the witches tesser to Urial and the witches show the three the black thing. They fly up to the top of a really tall mountain and when the sun sets, they all shiver and feel the evil of it. Also on Urial, the witches try to explain what a tesseract is. They explain it as the fourth and fifth dimensions which are time and space being folded in half so the starting point and the destination are closer together.
The fourth major event is really important. It is when the witches take the three to the planet Camazots to rescue Mr. Murry. The witches leave them with their gifts but then leave the planet. Megan got her faults and Mrs. ?'s glasses, Charles got his mental ability increased and a warning, and Calvin got his communication ability increased. Then they go to the Central CENTRAL Intelligence building to get Mr. Murry. There, they get reported to IT who captures Charles Wallace's mind. When they finally find Mr. Murry, he is trapped in a column of light. They think there is no hope but Meg remembers the glasses that Mrs. ? gave her and tries them on. She finds that she can walk straight through the transparent wall and into the column where her father is. He is startled by her voice and then is really happy to see Megan. They get out and go face IT. IT begins to win over them all so Mr. Murry tessers to another planet leaving Charles behind. When they get to the new planet, Meg can't move and the others are worried about her because she was injured by the black thing surrounding the planet. Just when she starts to be able to move again, some creatures come up to them. The creatures, seeing that the three need help, take them in and nurse them back to health.
After the encounter with the creatures, the witches come back and tell Megan that she alone has to go and rescue Charles. She begins to protest but decides to go because she really loves Charles. (...)
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