Friday, March 16, 2007

The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

Published in 2003. 519 pages.


This is number 60 on the 100 Books! meme - a book I hadn't yet read but wanted to, so I decided that I'd just do it.

I loved this book! The whole concept of time travel and the time-space continuum is intriguing to me - for example in Michael Crichton's Timeline, Connie Willis' Doomsday Book, the Back to the Future trilogy, several of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in The Lake House - and this is another great exploration of that idea.

Scott Turow had this to say:

To those who say there are no new love stories, I heartily recommend The Time Traveler's Wife, an enchanting novel, which is beautifully crafted and as dazzlingly imaginative as it is dizzyingly romantic.

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4 comments:

  1. I _loved_ this book. I read it and wished two things:
    1) I had written such a beautiful and smart book
    2) I could go back in time and know my husband as a young man.

    The concept also reminds me of Diana Gabaldon's series where the protag time travels. Good stuff!

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  2. I loved this one too. It's one of my favorite books. Wouldnt it be great to time travel?

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  3. I read this book several years ago. I thought that there were a couple of scenes that could have been left out or made a little more "PG-13". I made the mistake of getting a copy for my mother-in-law when I picked up my copy. You tend to read things in a different light when you know you gave the book to your mother-in-law to read. Yikes! :p

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  4. I enjoyed this book. I read it last summer on my vacation in San Diego. I thought it was achingly beautiful (and a little weird). I need to read it again! But, first, I have to finish "Founding Brothers."

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