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Summary: I WISH THEY WOULD MAKE THIS BOOK A MOVIE!
Review: EVER SINCE MY GIFTED TEACHER, MRS. FAULKNER, READ THIS BOOK TO ME, I HAVE BEEN A MADELEINE L'ENGLE FAN. I
LIKE "A WIND IN THE DOOR" A TEENCY-
WEENCY BIT BETTER THOUGH. I HAVE THIS BOOK ON CASSETTE AND I LOVE IT.
MY MOM LOVES IT TOO. IT'S A GREAT BOOK
FOR KIDS, BUT I DOUBT IF SOME ADULTS
WOULD UNDERSTAND IT.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read!!!
Review: After reading and throughly enjoying "A Wrinkle in Time," I must say it is the best book I have ever read. True, I am only an 11 year old girl who is trapped in the excitement and love for reading books, but I have read many and this is truly my favorite. The way the author weaves the story is very interesting, so each chapter is better than the last. I found that the characterization as well as everything else, was excellent, and that surprised me because those kind of books usually do not have have very good characterization. I recommend this book to everybody of all ages and occupations to read this book, because of it's creativity, uniqueness, and everything else it has;I compliment it.
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Summary: Sure to kill an interest in science and mathematics.
Review: In "A Wrinkle in Time," Madeleine L'Engle introduces her readers to three of the most promising characters in contemporary juvenile science fiction. There's Charles Wallace - a five-year-old boy who the world sees as mute and retarded, but who is actually only biding his time for his adolescent sister's sake. The student community already regards his sister Meg as strange and stupid, and Charles Wallace will not give them a glimpse of his post-Einsteinian intellect so that they can contrast it with Meg's and see her as even more strange and stupid. And it isn't that Meg really is stupid - she simply refuses to do schoolwork in the dumbed-down, lowest common denominator way that current education for the masses is handled. She's been taught logical short-cuts by her brilliant and beautiful parents and can actually do the work much better and faster. Meg's teachers, however, are like uneducated athletic coaches: "It's my way or the Hy-Way." She won't do the work THEIR way, so she must be stupid and deserves her bad grades. Then there's Calvin, a gangly red-headed basketball star who's quite popular in school. He's one of eleven children, however, and has learned to quite successfully hide both his intelligence and something else - a quality both he and Charles Wallace bear that gives them access to other realms of experience that, they are sorry to note, Meg will never share. When Calvin meets Charles Wallace and Meg in the woods, he instantly identifies the kindred spirits; and for the first time in his life, he feels he belongs. Meg misses her father terribly. He left home over a year ago and the government agency for which he conducted scientific research will not say where he is nor even if he is dead or alive. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and Calvin to an itenerent bag-lady (Mrs. Whatsit) who just happens to know where Meg's father is and, with the help of two other entities (Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which), whisks the trio off on a trans-dimensional journey through - well, here the whole story starts to fall apart. The three Macbethian witches devolve into a variety of swords-and-sorcery aliens, and a Tolkein-like shadow of Mordor begins to haunt the story. The three witches become confusing, the three main characters begin losing their individual voices; and, worst of all, Ms. L'Engle attempts to explain an easy mathematics concept and totally flubs it. No, flubs is too kind a word. She takes an exciting concept like a tesseract, a concept which introduced three generations of (now) scientists to extra-dimensionality in mathematics and topology and uses it to completely confuse her young readers and say to them: "Mathematics is too difficult for you, dear. There's some things we just aren't meant to understand." CRIMINAL! Tesseracts exist in four SPATIAL dimensions, the fourth dimension of which is at right angles to the first three (as each of the first three - length, height & depth - are at right angles to each other - look at a cube and think about it. L'Engle totally confuses this fourth spatial dimension with the idea of time as a fourth dimension so of course this new dimension in which a tesseract exists must be the fifth. Further, she has Charles Wallace, WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER, claim that there is no way to draw a tesseract like we can draw a cube (a three-dimensional object drawn in two dimensions on paper, which has only length and width). Charles Wallace says: "But you can't take a pencil and draw it the way you can the first three. I know it's got something to do with Einstein and time. I guess maybe you could call the fourth dimension Time." AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! When I read this passage aloud to my child, I wanted to jump up and start shouting: "Read Robert Heinlein's short-story "There Was a Crooked Man" again, STUPID! You had to have read it once, or you'd never have heard of a tesseract. You must even have seen a picture of a tesseract. If you were too dim to understand the concept then, what makes you think you should be writing about it for intelligent juveniles now!" Instead, I put the book down and calmly and simply explained a tesseract to my eight-year-old son. He listened intently - his interest in the concept was piqued by Ms. L'Engle early in the book. He picked up a marker and began to draw. A few minutes later, he showed me a shaky but accurate two-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional tesseract (using perspective in the fourth dimension) and said: "You mean like this, Daddy?" Tomorrow night I'll be reading my son "There Was a Crooked Man" (if I can find an out-of-print copy someplace). If he asks about "A Wrinkle in Time", I'll tell him that a centaur-shaped ring-wraith was sent by the dark lord of Mordor to confiscate all copies of the book and take them to the land where they rightfully belong. As for Ms. L'Engle and the people who awarded this turkey a Newberry Medal? Well, now we know what Meg's teachers are doing these days.
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Summary: Truly Absorbing!
Review: This book is truly absorbing.Don't read it if you simply want to relax. To read it and really understand it you have to THINK! Join Meg,Charles Wallace and Calvin O'Keefe
on a wild adventure through time and space.
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Summary: I taught it every year for 20 years - love it!
Review: This book has become the one that I look forward to teaching every year. The students are introduced to the characters that appear in every chapter and we keep a "supernaturility chart" where we rank them. Chapter by chapter we follow Meg and co. in search of her father and learn about dimensions and time. (Einstein would have loved this book.) After we finish the book, we make an oversized comic strip and plaster it all over the classroom. Almost without exception, my students love this book.
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Summary: absolutley a must for young readers.
Review: If ever there was a reason to read this book is it. I first read this book in grade school a have read it again every year since. I am 33years old. The problems Meg has with adapting to her enviroment is not unlike the problem our youth face today. The uniquness of Charles, Meg's younger brother, and her protectivness of her family as a whole. While trying to find herself, just gave at least for me, a feeling of this could be me. I have made every one of my children sit downn with this book and read cover to cover and they have yet to say that I was wrong.I am surprised that no one has made this into a movie.
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Summary: GEOFF SAYS......ITS THE BEST!!!!!!!!
Review: A CLASSIC!! I highly recommend it to not only science fiction fans, but anybody who enjoys just plain fiction. Offcourse, Madeleine L'engle's Wrinkle in Time isn't just plain fiction, it's mystery, brooding horror, and mysticism, to. L'engle's way of comparing characters such as the Man with Red Eyes, and IT to satin is extroardinary. The way she describes Mrs. Whatsit,
Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which as gaurdian angles is fascinating. An exquisite example for future science fiction authors. I was so absorbed in L'engle's novel that I read the 211 pages of the book in three and a half days....on vacation! I LOVE IT!!!!!! GEOFF, 10
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Summary: Battle the Black Thing to save Father.
Review: Meg Murry's father has been missing, and suddenly, her, and Charles Wallace (her little brother) meet three strange ladies, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. The three good witchs sent Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, their friend, on a trip through space, to retrieve their father. But, when they get to where their father is, their is big trouble their, waitng for them, and IT isn't pretty
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Summary: Sci-fi, fantasy, morality, and religion at its best.
Review: When I was in the third or fourth grade, my mother recommended that I read A Wrinkle in Time (the Newbery Award winning first book in this series). I absolutely loved it then. I subsequently bought the series for a young cousin when she was a little older than that. Now, I have read the entire series to my seven-year-old son, and he begged me to read more each night. This is a series that you will enjoy re-visiting time and again, and that you won't mind reading to your children. I actually anticipate re-reading it again to my two-year-old son.
Ms. L'Engle has combined science fiction, fantasy, morality, ancient myths, and religion in a way that is totally enjoyable and not at all preachy. You get to know each of the characters as though they were close friends. You don't get tired of the characters, or annoyed by their insecurities, but rather remember your own inadequacies (past and present) with a little less chagrin. You also really wish you could know what each character is doing right now
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Summary: A favorite again after 22 years!
Review: "A Wrinkle In Time" was and is undoubtedly one of the best books ever written. I too, like many others read it at 11 yrs old. I became fascinated with the possibility that there are unknown worlds in this universe. My interest in science fiction began with this story and twenty three years later, at age 33, I recently used this book's theory of time travel the "tesseract or wrinkle" as an interior design concept. Amazing that I chose this one from the many books that I've read, but this story with its wonderful characters inspire, titillate the curious and satisfy our belief in the power of good. Time travel into other worlds was considered fantasy, but today, Ms. L'Engle's story may be closer to reality than we think
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