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The Time Traveler's Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger

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| Paperback | 9780156029438

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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 aContinue

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The Time Traveler's Wife

Many novels today are concerned with difficult, diffracted relationships in modern society, but there are few (if any!) where the problems are largely caused by accidental time-travel. I approached this novel with some caution, since the blurb made i ... (read full critics)

bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

The Time Traveler's Wife

'The Time Traveler's Wife' sounds as if it should be another science fiction novel detailing the adventures resulting from time travel. However, anyone expecting such a story from Audrey Niffenegger could be sadly disappointed. Niffenegger's novel is ... (read full critics)

bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?
This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it wa ... (continue)

Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?
This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it was out of his control. She accepted him as part of her life. Each time he left, all she could do was to hope that he would come back to her.
In spite of a slightly confusing beginning, it is a good bittersweet love story.

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Tiny said on Aug 25, 2006 | 1 feedback

6 people find this helpful

I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ing ... (continue)

I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ingenious writing reminds me one of my favorite movies "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind".

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meowmeow said on Jan 27, 2007 | 1 feedback

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This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
He time-travels, she ... (continue)

This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
He time-travels, she waits for him in her present, but she's already met him somewhere in the past and will find him again in the future. His lifestream is uneven as its tale, but time- and age-hints heading each chapter help the reader through it.
Actually, human beings are chrono-displaced by default; our emotional memory is, at any rate. Henry, in a way, embodies this condition.
Compelling as the plot is, it also carves our soul, affecting all that really really matters. Pulse, wishes, fulfilment, and frustration. Magic and loss, the bittersweet taste of this everyday adventure, whose true essence seems to glimpse at our life now and then, brightening hard times with enchantment every time we realize that time is nothing.

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Zu said on Nov 25, 2009 | 2 feedbacks

Confusing but good...

Okay I liked it! Basically it is the tale of a man who spontaneously time travels back and forth throughout his life. He has no control over this and when he does time travel he ends up standing naked in some unknown time period, not exactly a convenient method of time travel if I had to pick one. ... (continue)

Okay I liked it! Basically it is the tale of a man who spontaneously time travels back and forth throughout his life. He has no control over this and when he does time travel he ends up standing naked in some unknown time period, not exactly a convenient method of time travel if I had to pick one.
At the beginning I have to admit I found it a bit confusing. It follows Clares life most of the time but the thing thats confusing is Henry could come back to Clare when she is six and he will be 43 and then come to her when she is 16 and he could be 36 so he hasn't experienced the time when she was six if you get me? It's confusing to say the least. However as the book draws on somehow you begin to find it easier to remember when's when and who's what!
Clare and Henry are great characters, neither are perfect but they have an unbreakable bond through love. The only flaw with this book was one of the last scenes involving Clare and Gomez. Nonsensical, cruel and out of character for both people I didn't get it. The rest was good!

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Lauraolsthoorn said on Mar 7, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Was amazing once finished but drug on at points. I can't believe they didn't include the Ingrid storyline in the movie!?

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Mchern1 said on Dec 27, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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