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Summary: It is still the best!
Review: I absolutely loved this book, as a child & as an adult. I bought this audio tape for my mother who is 47. I am giving it to her for Christmas. She loved reading this book to me as a child as much as I loved hearing her read it. I think this may be one of the best Christmas gifts I have gotten her because it is a connection between us. And the best part is that the author, Madeleine L'Engle is the one who is narrating the audio. Wow! How better to get the full story than to hear the woman that wrote it read it. I am so excited! I cant wait until she lets me listen to it too!
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Summary: The best book I ever read!!
Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L¡¯Engle is a book that all the science fiction or fantasy lovers of all ages should read. Even though the book is geared towards young readers, it is interesting enough for adults to read. The book is so different and unusual that it makes your imagination travel through time and space with the characters in the book. As you travel throughout the book, you can learn lessons that are important to your life.The book is about a girl named Meg Murry, an awkward, but loving high school student. She finds out that her missing father who is a gifted scientist is being held prisoner by the evil forces on the other planet of Camazotz. With Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit¡¯s help, Meg, her extraordinarily intelligent younger brother Charles Wallace, and their new friend, Calvin O¡¯Keefe, go on a dangerous adventure through time and space. They fight the evil forces including the giant disembodied brain named IT, The Black Thing, and the Man with the Red Eyes to rescue Meg¡¯s father. Throughout the battle of good and evil, Meg learns few lessons. When Meg arrives at a planet of Camazots, she is surprised at the place. The place represents complete conformity and security, but no personal freedom with its rows of identical houses and identical human beings. Meg learns that being unique and individual is better than being absolutely identical. Another important lesson that Meg learns is that she can not know everything. When she goes to the planet named Uriel, she can accept that the musical dance of the creatures is beautiful even though she can not understand nor speak their language. She learns that being able to feel is more important than the need for total understanding of the world around her. Another theme of the book and an important lesson for Meg is the inadequacy of words. L¡¯Engle demonstrates that verbal speech is not the only way with which we can share our thoughts and feelings. Meg learns her lesson in her rescue of Charles Wallace: she fights over and wins IT through the sheer power of love that transcends spoken language. When you read the book, you can learn few other important lessons. A Wrinkle in Time is a great book that anyone who loves adventures and science fiction should read. I really like this book. In the absence of any ambiguities or shades of gray, the book¡¯s central conflict is clearly and starkly dramatized so that readers of all ages can understand its themes and its messages. The book is very interesting and catches your attention because it¡¯s very different from our normal life: unreal, and very strange. It is so fictional and unusual that it might be too childish for some people. The book is well written. The story flows nicely, but it ends awfully quickly at the end where it should be concentrated the most on: Meg saves her brother by her love, and then is happily whisked home, all in few pages. I also hoped that the author explained about the tesseract which is a wrinkle in time more clearly. The book refers to Christianity at the theological and philosophical level; and while the struggle between good and evil forces in the world is a central aspect of Christian theology, it is also universal in its scope. It is a great science fiction story which is very adventurous, imaginative, appealing and which teaches you very important lessons. I recommend the book to people who like to use their imagination as they read the book.
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Summary: nice, soft sci-fi
Review: disclaimer: i'm a adult (sorta) reviewing this kid's (sorta) book. Wrinkle in Time reminded me a lot of CS Lewis' space trilogy -- rather soft sci - fi, more interested in making the universe a moral playground than diving into science-type sci-fi. I think Lewis does it better because it's clearer (and more profound?) what he's doing with it. L'Engle's moral/universal battle is a bit vague, at least at this point in the series -- something to do with individuality, love, and sacrifice. The 3 ladies quote scripture occasionally -- how does it all fit? The story itself moves along nicely, though seems awfully quick at the end -- Meg saves her brother with what feels like should be the deepest revelation of the book, then is whisked home and happy, all in just a few pages. I wanted some more meat here, I wanted L'Engle to slow down a bit. My interest is piqued, and I have a feeling what feels undeveloped here may be made up for in later books, so I'll keep reading. a passage: "The trees were lashed into a violent frenzy. Meg screamed and clutched at Calvin, and Mrs. Which's authoritative voice called out, "Qquiett, chilldd!" Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle? There was still the sound of leaves, a terrified, terrifying rushing. All light was gone. Darkness was complete. Suddenly the wind was gone, and all sound. Meg felt that Calvin was being torn from her. When she reached for him her fingers touched nothing. She screamed out, "Charles!" and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know. The word was flung back down her throat and she choked on it. She was completely alone. She had lost the protection of Calvin's hand. Charles was nowhere, either to save or to turn to. She was alone in a fragment of nothingness. No light, no sound, no feeling. Where was her body? She tried to mive in her panic, but there was nothign to move. Just as light and sound had vanished, she was gone, too. The corporeal Meg simply was not."
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Summary: still terrific, but now I understand more
Review: The phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books (see Orrin's review)--the first two are currently both in the Top 10 of most Bestseller Lists--lead me to reread this Children's Classic, which was one of the big favorites of our generation. I must have read it around fifth grade--I imagine most every kid in America reads it at some point--and no one will be surprised to hear, it turns out I wasn't as smart as I thought I was when I was ten. Madeleine L'Engle managed to hoodwink me, but good. I thought this was just a great Science Fiction/Fantasy story, but now I discover that the whole book is a religious allegory. Meg Murry and her brothers, Charles Wallace and the twins, live with their mother. Their Father has been missing for years, supposedly working on a top secret government project. Meg and Charles Wallace are strange children, noone seems to know quite whether they are idiots or geniuses. In short order they meet Calvin, a tall gangly boy, who also feels like a misfit and three women who have moved into an abandoned house in the neighborhood. The old women, Mrs. Whatsit , Mrs. Which & Mrs. Who, inform the children that Mr. Murry is in dire straits and needs their help. They travel through time and space via wrinkles, called tesseracts, to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murry has gone to battle the forces of darkness that are closing sections of the universe in shadow. There they battle the evil being known as IT, a disembodied brain who offers people complete security if they will only give up their freedom and their individuality, as have the inhabitants of Camazotz. Most of the allegorical stuff is easy enough to see, the children can fight evil by finding The Father. Meg despairs that evil is allowed to exist at all and blames her father, and so on. But I really liked the fact that L'Engle portrays Camazotz (or Hell) as a place where there is complete conformity and security, but no personal freedom. Personally, I believe that Camazotz closely resembles both a Socialist or Communist State and the Garden of Eden. Just as the great struggle of Ms L "Engle's time was the fight for freedom against the security of Socialism/Communism, Man chose to leave the security of a pastoral existence in the Garden and accept the vicissitudes of life without because we prefer freedom. The book also contains one of the most beautiful descriptions of human life that I've ever heard. Mrs. Whatsit compares life to a sonnet: It is a very strict form of poetry is it not? There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm or meter, yes? And each line has to end with a rigid rhyme pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it? Calvin: You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. This book conveys a worthwhile religiopolitical lesson about the human condition and is great fun besides. I look forward to reading it with my kids. GRADE: A+
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Summary: I just read a GREAT book called A Wrinkle in Time
Review: Hurry, dash to the library and check out the book called A Wrinkle in Time written by Madiline L' Engle. It is an awesome book for all ages. It all starts when Meg and Charles Wallace's father goes out in space and is captured by an evil shadow in the sky and taken to a planet where all life is ruled by a huge, pulsating brain known as IT. Then Meg and Charles Wallace take a wrinkle in time to get to their father. You will find out what a wrinkle in time is only if you read the book. I can't tell you the end because then it will spoil the reason of reading the book. This book is full of adventure and excitement, so if you are that kind of person I would suggest this book to you.
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Summary: Until Harry Potter.....
Review: I have read hundreds of books since I was a child. I read to my children on a nightly basis. They are enjoying the Harry Potter series so much, that I thought I'd like to share with them my favorite book when I was their age, "A Wrinkle In Time". It is the ONE book that I fully remember reading as a child. <of course I read it about 10 times> It is now on their Christmas wish list. I am so looking forward to reading this book to them and then reading all of the sequals to it. I have never read any of the sequals, so I will be experiencing it for the first time "with" them. No book has ever compared to this one, in my eyes, until the Harry Potter series came along. And if there are people out there who are enjoying Harry Potter and have never read A Wrinkle In Time, it is a MUST read for you and your children. Please encourage your children to read often. It is the opening to many wonderful places in our minds. :)
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Summary: Buy the book, not the audiobook!
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is a wonderful story of two children who set out to find their father with the help of their friend Calvin. It is easy to see why it has become a children's classic as the characters are lovable, the portrayal of their courage and determination that brings about the positive outcome of good over evil is artfully done. However, the author should have had someone else read the story for the audiobook. Her voice crackles unpleasantly, is shrill and makes the story difficult to listen to.
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Summary: A nearly-universal favorite
Review: I'm 32 years old, and I don't have a single friend who doesn't list this as one of their very favorite childhood books. Upon re-reading it, I'm amazed at how well it stands up. Meg's brother Charles is still annoying, but Meg herself is still marvelously complex and human. And I love how L'Engle firmly believes children can handle the biggest of concepts -- good vs. evil, theoretical physics, the idea of God. a wonderful, wonderful book.
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Summary: DMC review
Review: This book was a pretty good. If you like fantasy books this book is for you, on the other hand if you don't like them don't read this book. I gave it 3 stars because I don't like fantasy books. This story is about a girl named Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace who travel through time and space to try to save their father. He has been lost while experimenting with his 5th dimension time travel. Accompanying them is Calvin who tries to help Meg and Charles Wallace in saving their father. On their way they meet up with some pretty strange people and beasts. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin succeed in saving their farther in time? Read the book to find out. By, Devin M. C.
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Summary: Great For All Ages!
Review: "A Wrinkle In Time" is about a girl named Meg and her brother Charles Wallace. They both are gifted, particularly Charles Wallace, and they have a hard time fitting in. They meet up with Calvin, and off they go along with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, & Mrs. Whitch on a breathtaking journey to find Meg's and Charles's father. Little do they no how evil the darkness is that awaits. A WONDERFUL book for anyone!
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