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The Time Traveler's Wife
by: Audrey Niffenegger

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780156029438
ISBN: 015602943X
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: May 27, 2004
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 345
Studio: Harvest Books

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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.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- loved this book
I love the idea of time travel and have enjoyed similar stories from movies and books such as "Somewhere in Time" and "Wrinkle in Time".

The Time Traveler's Wife is one of my all-time favorite books. The author did a wonderful job weaving the different time sequences together and I thought she did a great job developing the characters.

It was a great read, and a bittersweet love story. I would highly recommend this book.

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- To each his own, but seriously...urgh...
This is a copy of a post I made in the discussion forum, just thought I would expand it into a larger review. Spoilers, of course.

It's interesting how Henry meets Clare for the first time, sleeps with her, then decides he's "overcome with happiness" (page 16) and breaks up with Ingrid less than a day later. If you want to argue that it was love at first sight (which I don't believe in myself, personally) you might want to just ignore this comment entirely. I understand that his relationship with Ingrid was a troubled one, and that it would have ended anyway, but I just felt sorry for Ingrid. She's a sad character who has problems, and is, I think, far more interesting than Clare, who is about as bland and uninteresting as a wet dishcloth. Henry defends himself, saying that Ingrid was "patient. Overly patient. Willing to put up with odd behavior, in the hope that someday I would shape up and marry her...And ... Read More

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- Dealing with loss, shame, and the imperfect
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For me, a gripping read
Character flaws (realism)
Emotionally engaging
Entertaining
Interesting character development

(-)
inconsistencies in the theory of time travel of of changing the the future

I'm omitting many details as to not give away too much of what the book provides.

Many of the reviews I read before actually reading this book alluded to the idea that it was about love. The back cover even calls it a love story. However, after reading it myself, I tend to gravitate more towards the idea that this book is really about loss: how we process it, how it tends to dehumanize us, how it simultaneously warps and reinforces what we consider as reality. Niffenegger does a wonderful job at tying the theme of love and loss throughout the pages of her book which is particularly why I was so consistently engaged while reading it.

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- wonderful
I don't usually rate books that I read, but this one really got to me. I absolutely loved this book. I plan on reading it again actually. It's a little hard to follow if you don't have time to sit and read it in one day, which I don't, but it's not so difficult that I didn't want to read it. I am a lover of all different authors and different styles of writing and I really enjoyed this and I recommend it to everyone!!!

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