A Wrinkle In Time

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Summary: The book was good.
Review: Kyle Lucas 10/10/96 My name is Kyle Lucas and I am 13 years old. I go to school at Mt.View Jr. High and I am in 7th grade and I live in Montville. I really like your book called A Wrinkle In Time. I picked A Wrinkle In Time because it looked like a good book. Like mystery and science fiction are the kinds of books I like to read. It is a good book. There were three parts of the book I really like!One was when Calvin, Meg, Charles met the It. The character, It, was a very good how you made the It one big brain was interesting. How the It did a rhythm. I also liked it when they met the beasts because I think it is cool how the beasts had four tentacles. I also liked it when they met the medium because I think it must be fun to see everywhere. One part I would change is at the beginning, I would have said what Meg looks in bits in the book because I like it when authers tell what the charactor looks like when we met charactors. I have some questions if you would answer them. D o you have any pointers you could give me about writing like to help when I have to write? How do you get ideas for each book? How long does it take to write a book about? How long did it take your book to be finished?

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Summary: Science fiction mixed with fantasy...
Review: This book is my favorite because Ms. L'Engle mixes science fiction and fantasy

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Summary: Compelling drama for young adults.
Review: Starting with 'A Wrinkle In Time' Madeleine L'engle's 'Time Quartet' uses science fiction adventure to bring accross deep lessons about life and love. The science fiction is excellent and L'engle's prose generates awe and wonder at the great mysteries of the universe. Following the lives of one family with such compelling depth that you feel you should be able to find them in the phone book L'engle creates a convincing portrait of the pains of adolesence and the growth that comes from it. Get this for Christmas for someone you love.

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Summary: This book is great!
Review: I loved this book because it it made me realize all the morrals in the book. Such as : like and equal are not the same; thing are not how they appear but how they are; don't judge a book by it's cover; love is one thing that evil doesn't have; and a few more. Even though it's fiction it's still true that there is a lot of darkness in the world and Meg made a big difference in it! The book was basicly about three children traveling around the univers using the testeract seaching for meg's and charles walace's father. Mrs. Who, Whatsit, and witch are helping them along the way. After they find their father they have to find a way to get out of camazots with out letting IT find out! Charles turns into IT control and they end up leaveing without him before they get caught! In the end meg saves charles and they all come home!I like the ending because it's happy. You would just feel good for them too!

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Summary: Really good!!
Review: I read this a long time ago, but it's still really good! Read it! Anyway, that's not my real point.

Would all those people who are complaining about the "lack of scientific substance" stop?!?!?! This isn't supposed to be a scientific journal! It's a NOVEL! What do novels do? Tell stories! NOT give scientific facts.

So, with that aside, I recommend this book to everyone.

Have fun reading!

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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: Difficult to review
Review: If you've happened by the page for "The Giver" you'll find my review, and I had quite a difficult time with it. I'm having a similar problem with this.

To state firstly: This is an amazing book. I'm giving it five stars because it's heartfelt, creative, beautifully-written, and has believable and loveable characters that you really actually WANT to sympathize with. It is a profound work of real beauty and substance, which is so nice to see among books for young readers. So many books today have been whitewashed and made politically correct to the point where almost all imagination has been sucked out of them. As far as I'm concerned, if it's not on the banned books list, it's probably not worth my time to read.

The reason this is a difficult book to review is because it's so creative and far-reaching. There are some extremely complicated concepts of physics, complex mathematics, philosophy, sociology, and even religion to an extent that are raised to some effect in this book. The idea of love defeating control is an idea that I would like to see more of and I very much admire L'Engle for bringing up these issues.

I suggest this book to any lover of fantasy, and I encourage parents to have thier children read this. Imagination is the spice of life and this is a perfect example of that.

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Summary: A Journey Through the Fifth Dimension
Review: How can you resist a book that begins with "It was a dark and stormy night"? Those seven little words can set the imagination racing in anticipation of a frightfully exciting story.

This one is a time travel story with a sci-fi angle, except there are no confusing paradoxes or problems with the butterfly effect. As far as the author is concerned, you should just bend it a little and charge right in.

This is also one of those rare books where the supporting characters are much more interesting than the main characters.

Meg Murry is a very central character, but she's rather hard to like, not too bright and very whiny. She's understandably devastated to learn that her father doesn't make the sun rise, and that the world doesn't revolve at his command.

Her brother Charles Wallace is more interesting, as he has a fledgling sixth sense thing going on, and at five years old he not only speaks perfectly, but has his mother's permission to use the stove. (That's a serious matter Ms. Engle)

Their new friend Calvin O'Keefe is not fully developed as a character, and neither are Meg and Charles' parents, Dr. Murry and Dr. Murry.

On the other hand you have Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs Which, as well as Aunt Beast, who guide the children on their quest to save Dr. Murry. These are really great characters, and I look forward to reading more about them in books to come.

This is obviously the first book of a series, and judging by the ending, not the last I'll be reading.

Amanda Richards, February 14, 2005