The Time Travelers Wife

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#1

No, I am not hung up on books about Time Travel, I promise. The first two “Sci-Fi” books that come to mind and are across the room happen to involve time travel. So sue me! :smiley:

Here is the synopsis from Barnes and Noble:

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger’s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel’s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

#2

That is a really good book, Solai. I was hell confused and close to giving up in the first few chapters but near the end . . . not many books have me crying that much (oh . . . spoiler alert)

#3

I think this is being made into a movie - with Eric Bana! WOOOT!!

#4

Thread necromancy!

So, with the movie coming out, I figured this would be something being discussed, especially in the book club.

I love this book. I actually got it off of Audible, unabridged at just over 10 hours. It’s one of the best time travel books I’ve ever read, and the development of the characters is amazingly well done. I especially love how consistant she is with the continuity of the story, especially given how disjointed everything is given the bouncing around from period to period.

I’m totally looking forward to this movie (though I fear for what will be cut to fit into a 2 hour time frame), so much so that I am actually listening to it again.

Chris

#5

I love about 95% of this book. I love how the author weaves the story and makes you care about the characters. Henry, Claire, Gomez and Ingrid are interesting and selfish and can be horrible to each other and I liked that.

I loved the time travel aspect of the novel. Most time travel stories confuse the heck out of me but this one was well done. I love the idea of destiny in the novel and the meaning (or lack) of free will that comes with time travelling. Destiny is a blessing and a curse for the characters and I liked how the novel explored the ways Claire and Henry cope with it.

What I don’t like from the book is the last chapter. Everything before that point is great, but the last chapter is weird. I don’t know if I can accurately explain why. I didn’t mind the two characters meeting that way at the very end. I think its how the author wrote it. I remember when I finished the book for the first time I was like ‘Is that it?’