A Wrinkle In Time

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Summary: Time Stop
Review: This book is so great, I felt like I was there! It was like the time in the real world just, froze! This is one of the best books I've ever read. And it ends so great and happily. I read "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", which is the third book in the series. But, it wasn't as good as this book. I mean, in this book, I felt like I was actually there. All the magic was just spinning around me. I suggest anyone who loves to read to get this book!

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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time
Review: Have you ever read a book that grabbed you and amazed you? A Wrinkle in time is one of those books. it is very interesting and makes you think. i would recommend this novel to teens and adults because i feel the concepts may be to difficult for younger children to understand.

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Summary: The L'Engle Masterpeice - A Wrinkle in Time
Review: A "Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a great book for lovers of mystery, magic, and even some Sci-Fi. L'Engle wrote this novel powerfully about a girl [Meg Murray] and her "special" brother [Charles-Wallace Murray] who team up with their friend [Calvin O-Keefe]to fight an evil power. I loved this book and I think L'Engle showed her writing skills well in this book and I would recommend this book to anyone who can read english.

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Summary: A Wrinkle of time
Review: I think a wrinkle in time is a pretty good book that everyone should reat at least once or twice in their lives. The author is very descriptive. At one point when the tenticals of a creature touched Meg the main (character), I almost felt them touching me as well. The book is about three kids. Meg and Charles Wallace are brotgher and sister, and Calvin is their friend. They are trying to find Megs dad whi is being held captive by an evil thing called "It." If you want to find out the great ending, get the bood and read it.

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Summary: Mark Phillips Review
Review: The story started out with Meg Murry, her mother, and brother sitting in the kitchen and then Mrs. Who came along and that started a huge adventure.The adventure, which involved Meg her brother Charrles Wallace and a friend they meet along the way, had mythical creatures, dark planets and a search for a long lost father. The three travelers meet two other whiches along with Mrs. Who who helped them to reach Camotaz which was a planet surrounded by the black thing. the reason they went to this planet is because this was the planet where Meg's father was . After a lot of complications everything turned out perfect.

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Summary: A Book You Can Never Put Down
Review: I read A Wrinkle in Time all in one night because it was full of excitement. It's about a girl named Meg Murry who was different from other people. Her brother, Charles Wallace, meets a lady, Mrs. Whatsit, who helps guide Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin on their journey to find Charles Wallace and Meg's father. The problem is, a thing called IT gets in their way and he even gets control of Charles Wallace! If this book seems to interest you, I hope you buy it and read it because it is one of my favorite books of all time. If you don't like fantasy or science fiction type books, you might not have an interest in A Wrinkle in Time. Other than that, this book is excellent and it could never be replaced, not even with the companions to a Wrinkle in Time!

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Summary: A classic
Review: I will never forget this book. Just by seeing it listed here I want to pick it up and read it again. The fantasy, creativity, characters, and the awesome continuation of the series will never be forgotten.

I can't help but admire L'Engle. She has talent. She has real talent.

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Summary: Science plus religion made into perfection
Review: A great read. If Susan Cooper is the heir to Tolkien's writing, then surely Madeleine L'Engle is the successor to C.S. Lewis. Meg, the heroine, is a perfectly rendered girl. She is flawed and strong in all the right places, making this book a great read. And unlike Lewis, L'Engle's Christian overtones aren't drummed into the reader. As a result, the life lessons learned in this book are easy to carry into one's daily life. There are some wonderful ways of depicting worlds that are "good" and "bad". The good worlds are Meg's home or the world of the centaur-like people with wings. Bad worlds are the land where everything is done to order and everyone must be the same. The bad world ruled by "It" isn't unlike Jonas's world in Lois Lowry's seminal book, "The Giver". The science in this book is realistically portrayed and would lead well into scientific discussions of the nature of the universe, tesserecting, and space. The real danger of the book is Charles Wallace. Meg's love for her little brother is not only believable but also beautiful. It also makes an otherwise rather annoying character (which, sad to say, he is) likable and someone you want to root for. I would pair this book with similar but very different fantasy story for kids. "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett is also the story of a girl going off to save her brother with the help of magical friends. In both stories the heroine's anger at injustice is her saving. The difference there is, of course, that in "The Wee Free Men", the heroine acknowledges that she doesn't much like her little brother but that he's hers and she wants him back. No such luck with this novel, but entrancing just the same.

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Summary: Wonderful audio book
Review: With 734 reviews already posted there is not a lot new to say about this book but here are a few comments -

I read the book years (decades?) ago and I remember loving it. I am now nearly finished listening to the audio version narrated by Barbara Caruso. I think it works well as an audio book. Even though the listening has been broken across several trips in the car it holds together pretty well. I think Caruso's voices for the different characters are well chosen and she communicates a delight in the book. There are also moments of sheer exaltation that come through wonderfully in the spoken version.

There is plenty here for adult readers to delight in. At a number of points when listening to the audio version I have squealed out in delight at fragments of humor and twists of plot/character development.

I don't think this is properly classified as "science fiction." d'Enle is really more interested in eternal verities, which she believes play a real role in our lives. The "science" in the story is mathematics/theoretic physics rather than experimental science or technology. This is just as well since the book is now 40 years old and would be increasingly dated if its premises or plot revolved around technology issues. I don't know whether the explanation of "tessarects" provided in the book would be endorsed by mathematicians or physicists but the FUNCTION of the explanation is twofold - first to provide the listener/reader with a halfway plausible excuse to believe in the trips through time and place that move the plot along, and just as important to tease us into half realizing the dimensions of reality that lie beyond our minds to grasp.

The book is at least as grounded in the "classics" as in science. Quotations from a variety of authors (nearly all in what might be called the classical tradition of Western thought) are liberally scattered through the earlier sections of the book. The excuse for this is that Mrs. Who - a charming character as portrayed by Barbara CAruso - exists primarily in other dimensions and must rely on the quotations to ground herself sufficiently to communicate in our dimension. If you want to appreciate d'Engle's understanding of what is real you should pay as much attention to these quotations from decidely non-scientific classics as to the "science" in the book.

The most recent review on this site attempts to compare this book to the Harry Potter books. Since I'm now reading Potter 5 I'll toss in my thoughts on this.

I wouldn't want to say which is "better." Both are can't-put-it-down books.

Rowling does provide a dimension of social commentary that is missing from d'Engle's book. She imagines a social world with institutions that are amusingly, wickedly (wiccedly?) parallel to our own. I don't find the same urge in d'Engle - however, this may be aprtly a function o fbook length.

However, I think both authors have a social purpose in urging the reader to live a life based on values in a distressingly mad and stupified world and both are skillful in presenting this message without being preachy about it. Also, they share many values in common.

Both sense that convention, conformity and lack of vision are primary instruments of evil - I think this places them in the romantic tradition and helps explain why both authors end up on "banned book" lists.

For both of them , love is the core value - the love of family and friends - as well as the core source of power. Both appreciate the power of small, humble things and for this I offer my heartfelt thanks.

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Summary: Mark Phillips Review.
Review: The book starts of in a cold night with a hurricane warning for the area where Meg lives.After a while she gets up and goes downstairs where her brother Charles Wallace is waiting for her with some hot chocolate. After some time downstairs with Meg's mother and brother there was a knock on the door. MEG'S MOTHER AWNSERED the door and in walks a woman named Mrs. Who. After Mrs. Who ,who Charles Wallace had already met, leaves after explaining a few things to their family a journey starts for Meg that would involve her brother, a friend named Calvin, Magnificent creatures, and horrible things.In the end Meg saved her brother from an evil brain people called IT, brought her father home after him being gone for several years, and she helped fight an evil black thing that surrounded many planets.