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A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle In Time

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wrinkle in Time
Review: Meg Murry has not had the best life according to her. She lives at home with her mother and three brothers. Her father, who is a scientist, that has been studying the fifth demension and time travel, has been gone on a secret government mission for four years. One day Meg, her five year old brother Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin go for a walk in the woods. On the way they meet three mysterious ladies named Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit. The ladies take the children on a quest to find their father. They travel through time and space by wrinkles or tesseracts to the planet Camazotz where their father has been taken prisoner. They must battle the forces of darkness that are turning the universe into nothing. During their travels the children must battle the evil being IT, which has taken their father captive. The IT is described in the book as a disembodied brain who wants people to become a part of Camazotz, but in order to do so they must first give up their freedom. The children must learn to rely on their individual strengths as well as each others in order to save their father and themselves.
This book takes you on a fun and exciting adventure as the children seek to find the person that is so important to them, their father. This book teachs a great lesson about seeking inside yourself for the things that are most important in life. Family is also a very important part to this story. It teaches that sometimes people will go to the absolute limit in order to protect each other. This is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to readers both young and old.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best book Ever
Review: this book is the best book in the world. this book really deserves a newberry award and the author a novel prize. :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a wrinkle in time
Review: the book a wrinkle in time is about a family that seem to kindof be on the edge the main charecters meg and charles meet up with a local named calvin and go on an ad venture to find and help ther father whos sposdly on a top secret government operration come home by testing all the laws we know and blasting into undiscoverd deminso the story is a clash of great science fiction trans forming int the wonderful world of fantsy the book opened my eyes to the descriptive detail of each adventure and the love between best freinds,children and there father,and husband and wife and the un breakable bond of family

I would defintly recomend this book to children of all ages it had great lessons and is a really good read

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: in regards to religion
Review: I read this book for the first time as a small child, and now I am 25 years old and just finished reading it again for the umpteenth time. I just love it. In regards to another review regarding the religious undertones, I personally didn't find them to be intrusive or irrelevent to the story. I definitely did not see where "evil is female" is communicated. I really can't imagine what that reviewer is talking about. Anyhow, in my opinion this book is not preachy and I would hate for someone to decline reading it or sharing it with their children because they are turned off by (minimal) religious references. It is a fabulously imaginative story written by a very gifted and highly honored author.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wrinkle In Time Review
Review: On a dark, stormy night Meg, her mother, and Charles Wallace are having a midnight snack. Their father is somewhere on a secret mission. When they hear somebody outside Meg's mom opens the door and there is somebody saying that she has been blown off course. Mrs. Murry invites her in. The next day Meg and Charles Wallace are taking a walk and the lady that visited them last night and two other ladies appear. The ladies tesser Meg, Charles, and Calvin, a boy they met along the way to some other strange planet called Camozotz. Everybody acts the same there. The ladies, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which give them gifts and say that they no longer can stay there. Charles was turned into somebody from IT, a large, living brain. They find their father and Meg almost gets caught in IT, so Meg's father tessers them somewhere and ends up on another planet where ther are giant, friendly beasts who are very dumb. Meg can't move, but when she finds out that Charles is still on Camozots, she blames her father. The Mrs. W's appear and Mrs.Whatsit volenteers to go back with Meg to get Charles Wallace out of IT. They fially get him and make it home. Mrs. Murry is very happy to see everybody.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Veiled religious dogma
Review: I was enjoying this book until the religious themes began popping up. I would not have minded them if they had fit the story line but they felt forced to me. The book kept setting me up for exciting discoveries only to let me down by declarations of angels, love and evil is female. I came away resenting what I felt was religious doggery and with the message that all evil is feminine. A very sexist book is this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SO COOL!!
Review: It makes you feel like you are on Uriel, or in the garden, or in Camazotz. Only good writing can do that.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Once you get past Chapter 1, there's no stopping.
Review: It's a good rule of thumb: Never judge a book by how boring the first chapter is. But once you're into chapter two, this book sucks you in and doesn't let you back out.

I was amazed at how suspenseful the book could get. What's amazing is that it will frighten you without letting you know what it is you're frightened of. But the level of suspense is definitely higher than that of any children's book I've ever read.

The author seems to successfully combine the symbolic theology of C.S. Lewis (e.g. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET and PERELANDRA) with a tiny bit of the hard-core science fiction of Arthur C. Clarke (e.g. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and 2010: ODYSSEY TWO) and somehow make this mixture interesting and thrilling for readers who otherwise would not have been interested in either subject.

I didn't know when I started reading this that it was the first book in a trilogy. But, now, having read it and loved it, I will definitely be reading the rest of the trilogy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Wrinkle in Time is saved by Devine Inspiration
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is a great book for sci-fi fans. It was an enjoyable book and it full of action mixed with science and a great plot behind it all. The story is told in third person, following the main character, Meg, through time and space on her journey to help find her father and ends up trying to save the world from an evil "darkness." A Wrinkle in Time is a fun story and I enjoyed its suspense and loved the characters. This would be the first book that I would recommend to someone who is looking for a good fiction book to read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good book
Review: I really liked this book.............
Although the beggining was kind of slow......
But, by the mddle of the book, I was really really into the book.........I hope more ppl will read the book, TRUST me
you won't regret it...


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