A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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Summary: A Swiftly Tilting Planet~This book is great!! :)
Review: This book is wonderful!! The plot is amazing and although I liked a wrinkle in time better, it is now one of my favorite books! At this time, all the mentionings about the nuclear war and Mad Dog Branzillo, just reminds me of our situation. I wish I could go back in time and save us as Charles Wallace did.

I also liked the fact that Calvin and Meg are now married, and Meg expecting. The rune that Calvin's mother gave to Charles was very interesting and it leaves me wondering how Mrs. L' Engle came up with it. On the subject of coming up with things, I like how Mrs. L' Engle used latin for some of the character's name's such as Gaudior. Overall this book was amazing and wonderful~I could not suggest a better book to read.

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Summary: Better Than A Wrinkle in Time!!
Review: I think that A Swiftly Tilting Planet was the best one that I've read in the Time Quartet (I've read Wrinkle, ASTP, and Many Waters) because it even pushes Charles Wallace to his limits!! The thing that really annoyed me was how Gaudior kept saying, "Not where, WHEN" after Charles asked him where they were going. The only weakness to ASTP is that Calvin has nothing to do with the story, and Meg only provides moral support while she kythes with Charles Wallace. Very explosive although around the middle you start wondering "What does any of this stuff have to do with Mad Dog Branzillo??" Believe me, keep reading!! It gets better.

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Summary: This is a really good book!
Review: I loved this book! It could be the best book I have ever read! It has a well written plot, and is mixed up, which I like in a book. You won't understand this book until the very last page, and I had to reread parts of it again. I throughly reccommend this book!

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Summary: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Review: No one really likes this book as much as the other Harry Potters that I know of, but i thought it was the best one! There was more mystery and adventure in it, i thought, and it really kept me at the edge of my seat!

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Summary: Fantastic in at least two senses -- a great book
Review: Fans of Madeleine L'Engle's Murry family are treated here to another of their adventures. Charles Wallace is fifteen years old now, and it is his fate to travel back in time and enter the souls of various folk from the olden days. By doing this, and by trying to exert positive mental energy upon these people, (while also trying to survive, and not to flip his proverbial lid,) he hopes to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, which his itinerant genius father knows is on the verge of happening. What I mean by this is that, by being a force for positive change in the past, Charles Wallace hopes to head off happenings in the past which are causally linked to the impending catastrophe of the near future. Charles Wallace has divine assistance, in the form of another member of Madeleine L'Engle's mental stable of heavenly creatures -- I'll let readers discover this creature for themselves.

The only reason I give this story four stars is that it is pretty slow going. The plot is highly complicated, and there are a few loops thrown in there that seem to just confuse the action. That said, it's still very interesting, and worth wading through. You might want to stop every few chapters to go over what has happened so far, and make sure you aren't lost.

I'd like to point out, also, that the legend Madeleine L'Engle draws upon for much of her tale, the story of the Welsh prince Madoc sailing to America long before Columbus, in 1170 A.D., is a real legend. Madeleine L'Engle did NOT make up that story -- real people really used to believe it was true. Some people still believe it today. In fact, one of the reasons that Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out west, was to look for descendants of the legendary Prince Madoc. Anyone who finds this legend exciting should know about the book "Madoc and the Discovery of America," by Richard Deacon. It's out of print, but ask your local librarian to help you find a copy. There's another book, called "The Children of First Man," by James Alexander Thom, that deals with the same legend, in a speculative and interesting way. Look at my Amazon.com review of that book, if you want suggestions for further reading. Also, a series of books just came out this January, by Pat Winter, called "Madoc." These are really excellent examples of historical fiction, if you enjoy this kind of thing... Finally, I'd like to very briefly encourage anyone who is scared by Madeleine L'Engle's use of the idea of nuclear war, as a plot device, to do some research online about this very frightening topic. There's a lot of information on the internet to help understand the threat of nuclear war -- and the more you read about it, the better you'll understand it.

Anyway -- this book is terrific. Two thumbs up.

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Summary: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Review: Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet is an excellent book in my opinion. Demonstrating a well thought up plot and a twist of suspense this book is definitely a five star. What makes A Swiftly Tilting Planet even better is the extraordinary use of science fiction. Another technique displayed by L'Engle is the return of her characters, Meg Murry O'Keefe and Charles Wallace. So far I have greatly appreciated this interesting piece of literary work. Other aspects that I thought were very creative were the setting and the unusual characters, such as the flying unicorn. I can easily relate to the main character Meg Murry O'Keefe because we are both young women growing up in an ever-changing world. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is up for the challenge of amazing novel written by Madeleine L'Engle. That is why I really enjoy the book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

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Summary: Say What???
Review: The book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, was a fantastic book most of the time, but there were many places in the book where I was totally lost. Whenever she started talking about all the countries and all the evils of the people and all the people who were fighting so-and-so I had to reread that section a couple of times before I eventually got it. And it wasn't just one place it was a couple of places that this occurred.

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Summary: Maybe my favorite in the Time Quartet
Review: Like many other readers, I loved A Wrinkle in Time, liked A Wind in the Door (but not as much), and so was pleasantly surprised with this book. I admit from the summaries it does sound somewhat contrived, even cheesy. But it's not at all. The main theme of this book is a balance between things, and how people and events are so interrelated, even though they don't seem to be at first. It is facinating how the two brothers thing (a form of Cain and Abel, of course, although it's not that obvious) repeats itself over and over through the different timelines and can be changed by the smallest alteration. You should definitely read this book, even if you havn't read the others (although it does help!)

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Summary: Third in the Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
Review: This is the third of the Wrinkle in Time books, and I think it a very wonderful story, almost as good as Wrinkle in Time itself.

Charles-Wallace must stop an evil dictator who wants to ruin the world. Meg and Calvin, who are now married, take Charles-Wallace to see Calvin's mother. All her life she seemed an ordinary woman and was extremely reticent, never talking about her past. Now as she is mortally ill, she has an urgent, if unclear message to pass on to Charles-Wallace, whom she insists on calling "Chuck." It seems incredible, but is there some relationship between Cal's mom and the evil dictator?

The revelations about Calvin's mother are touching, the story is high adventure and as usual pits Good against Evil in a wonderful way. This is a terrific story.

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Summary: One GRRREAT book!!!
Review: The book A Swiflty Tilting Planet was a fun page-turner with adventures on every page. The Author portrayed the characters very well and in some parts of the book, I felt as if I was riding on the unicorn's back with Charles Wallace. I liked this book because it was always fun and there was never a dull moment. Some parts were hard to follow though, but overall it was one great adventure of a book!!!!