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Time Travelers Wife

By Audrey Neffenegger

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| Audio Cassette | 9781565118263

Book Description

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

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.

12 Reviews

  • 5 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 2 people find this helpful

    A Cool Gimmick And Little Else

    There were times when I just wanted to stop reading. The book starts well with an intriguing idea, Henry is a man who time travels and jumps around in time who falls in love with a Clare. My main problem with the book was that other than the time traveling, there isn't much else interesting about He ... (continue)

    There were times when I just wanted to stop reading. The book starts well with an intriguing idea, Henry is a man who time travels and jumps around in time who falls in love with a Clare. My main problem with the book was that other than the time traveling, there isn't much else interesting about Henry, and I never got why Clare fell so madly in love with him. It was kind of like watching a romantic comedy where the two leads have no chemistry.

    Things picked up for the last 100 or so pages, and I found myself quite emotionally involved with what was going to happen (what the reader KNEW was going to happen but still had to read along to find out exactly HOW). The author does a excellent job of working Henry and Clare's individual timelines together, but for a bulk of the book I just didn't care what happened to either of them.

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    ― Cuzzin Todd said on Feb 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    My favorite book. It made me feel so many emotions, the author is a genius (and to think this is her first novel!) Here you'll find lots of romance, science fiction, drama, humor and suspense. I didn't want the book to be over. I could not get enough of it! I am going to read it again. It can get co ... (continue)

    My favorite book. It made me feel so many emotions, the author is a genius (and to think this is her first novel!) Here you'll find lots of romance, science fiction, drama, humor and suspense. I didn't want the book to be over. I could not get enough of it! I am going to read it again. It can get confusing if you don't pay attention, you need to be focused or you'll loose track and miss the essence of this beautiful novel.

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    ― VeraHuff said on Oct 3, 2009 about the Paperback edition | 2 feedbacks

  • The Time Traveler’s Wife (時光旅人之妻)
    幾次逛Amazon 網路書局時，都看到網站上大力推薦這本書。加上電影的預告（還有當時亞馬遜在打折）我就把他買下來了。一開始，我覺得這本書很好看。主要內容是在敘述女主角Clair的丈夫亨利是一位會穿梭時間的人。亨利每次的出現都是一絲不掛（因為物件不能穿梭時間）。由於不能控制穿梭的時間和地點，亨利已經練成開鎖，防身，威脅（不傷大雅的跟對方要一下衣服和現金），和逃跑等等本事。而再現在時間的Clair就是一位在家等待丈夫的妻子。每次等待，都要擔心丈夫回的來回不來。總之這整本書（內容我講的很爛… orz），就是這對夫妻的愛情故事。 ... (continue)

    The Time Traveler’s Wife (時光旅人之妻)
    幾次逛Amazon 網路書局時，都看到網站上大力推薦這本書。加上電影的預告（還有當時亞馬遜在打折）我就把他買下來了。一開始，我覺得這本書很好看。主要內容是在敘述女主角Clair的丈夫亨利是一位會穿梭時間的人。亨利每次的出現都是一絲不掛（因為物件不能穿梭時間）。由於不能控制穿梭的時間和地點，亨利已經練成開鎖，防身，威脅（不傷大雅的跟對方要一下衣服和現金），和逃跑等等本事。而再現在時間的Clair就是一位在家等待丈夫的妻子。每次等待，都要擔心丈夫回的來回不來。總之這整本書（內容我講的很爛… orz），就是這對夫妻的愛情故事。
    看到書的一半，我開始想　亨利穿梭時間的意義。總覺得上帝給他這樣的能力，是有一個意義在的。是不是要讓他解救一件事情？是不是要他領悟ㄧ些道理？還是要讓他了解一件事情的因果？我一直在想，他這份能力會不會在某個時間因為任務達成就會消失。我一直在期待什麼…
    可是看到書的結尾時…　我才發現（或著我根本沒發現），他這樣的時間旅遊，沒有太大意義　… 他之所以會穿梭，就是基因上的突變… 他和Clair 所生的女兒 Alba 也因為這樣能夠在時間裡穿梭（而且可以控制地點和時間？）而我不懂這份基因傳承在故事的結尾中，是要引發什麼聯想？什麼效果？
    在最後一頁，當Clair 82歲與42歲的亨利相遇時，Clair 以 “He is coming, and I am here.” 來做全書的結尾，我就想丟書了…
    每一個故事都有它存在的理由，所以才被出版，所以才被感動。一直在思索我想從書中得到甚麼，總是沒想透。但要說這本書很難看，又覺得他們這樣的愛情有吸引我（至少我把他看完了！）。
    我想到有一次我去紐約的美術館（我忘了是哪一間美術館）看到一個作品：全白的背景上，畫上非常非常細的格子線，筆觸很淡，不仔細看就覺得是一張舊布掛在那裏。那作品名稱好像寫著busy city還甚麼的。我媽跟表姐看了搖頭說看不懂，就走掉了。我一直在想＂這是甚麼，為什麼？＂這也讓我想到當初上課時，我常問我自己的一個問題：一件創作，需要有意義才能存在嗎？還是它存在是有它的意義在？它不能就是純粹以自我開心，自我欣賞的角度而存在嗎？一定非得要付予意義才有存在的價值嗎？
    時光旅人之妻，我看完之後我覺得除了愛情之外，我沒發現其他重要的部分。對我來說，我更沒看到這本書給我的啟示和領會（我太笨了，沒找到 XD）。但是回頭在想，就說這是一本愛情故事有甚麼不可以？
    書已經看完多天，我腦中不時會出現Clair 等待亨利的畫面，想到那分分離離的感受和那份不安全感，就希望自己的愛情不要是這樣。若說還會重看，那可能N年以後吧，但是也不急於把這本書捐出去。那是一本四顆星中，我會給兩顆：so-so的書。

    書摘：
    I reflect miserably that whatever went wrong, it just had to go that way, and sooner or later it will right itself.

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  • I never anticipated giving this book four stars. In fact, at about the 200th page, I wasn't even sure that I would continue through to the end. I would have been so disappointed! This story is the closest I have ever come to science fiction and truly become immersed in it. Of course, it is actually ... (continue)

    I never anticipated giving this book four stars. In fact, at about the 200th page, I wasn't even sure that I would continue through to the end. I would have been so disappointed! This story is the closest I have ever come to science fiction and truly become immersed in it. Of course, it is actually a highly elaborate love story, but the author swings wide open the doors of her imagination and the love story emerges to transcend all time. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad............the characters live out events that incompass the breadth of human emotions. Only a small fraction of us will ever encounter such a magnificent love. Very poignant. It is well worth reading!

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    ― Kerry Jacobson said on Aug 11, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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