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The Time Traveler's Wife | 
 enlarge | Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  829 reviews
Sales Rank: 147
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 518
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0099464462
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099464464
ASIN: 0099464462
Publication Date: May 29, 2004
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Condition: Good , clean, sound copy. PAPERBACK. light reading wear, with creases to spine. Immediate UK despatch
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 Interesting idea, but far, far too long = boredom! November 18, 2008
John M (UK)
I realise here that I'm in the minority but one should speak as they find. The idea behind the book was interesting, but the story itself just completely failed to engage me. It's unusual for me to give up on a book but I just couldn't finish this! It's basically a series of anecdotes and meetings concerning a man who travels randomly back in time and meets his future partner as she grows up. An interesting idea, but unfortunately that was about as far as it went. The scenes themselves lacked any interest for me and the story was extremely slow in going anywhere. If it had been a shorter book that had a bit more pace it may have held my interest. Apologies to the vast swathes of fans, but I found this a very tedious read!
 Amazing November 17, 2008
Marsha Korowitz (Devon)
An absolutely amazing incredible book! It's totally engrossing - I enjoyed every page. It took me 3 hours to read this exquisite novel. Its funny, touching, sad, loving, clever.... just brilliant. If you don't read any other books in your life - please read this one. Its truely wonderful! Amazing!
 A great story!! November 16, 2008
Lisette
I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife yesterday, and I have to say I enjoyed it very much.
The story is about Henry DeTamble, who has a rare condition that makes him involuntarily travel through time, and Clare, the love of his life.
Clare has known Henry (at various ages) all her life. She met him for the first time when she was six, though when Henry met her for the first time, she was 20.
Confusing? Strangely enough, it's not. Throughout the book I found it very easy to understand all the different times and ages mixed together.
The book starts in Clare's past, with Henry visiting her on lots of different ocassions. In this part of the book we move through time fairly quickly. It more or less follows real time. We learn how Clare grows up and cares for Henry. The Henry from to future, who is married to Clare. Little comments made me very curious about the rest of their lives together.
When the book skips to the present, where Clare and Henry's present selves meet each other, Clare finds out that Henry at 28 is not the same as the Henry from the future who visited her all throughout her childhood.
Henry has had a difficult past, and meeting Clare is the beginning of a new life for him.
I personally was also a little let down by this young present version of Henry, but as the story in the present continues, you see Henry becoming more and more like his future self.
It's great to see Henry, changing from Clare's good older friend, to her husband, the love of her life.
I do have to say I thought that bit took a bit too long. The part where we learn about Henry's bad dissicions in the past and meeting Clare's friends, etc. Things got a bit slow.
It was kind of like, when Niffenegger told us about the past, she gave away all the good stuff at once, and in the present, there is no more to tell about the time traveling, because we already know everything.
Clare seemed to feel that way as well, when Henry travels to the past, and she is left behind, it's like giving back the time she had with him when she was young.
Eventually life moves on and Henry and Clare get married. After that, the book picked up, and I was hooked again.
Life isn't easy for the DeTambles, as Clare tries to get pregnant (and fails about 8 times) things get difficult. Some parts of their life, that were life changing to them, were written a little abruptly, and I wished the writer would have gotten into that a bit more.
Anyway, the love story continous, with it's ups and downs, right till the very end....
For me, this book wasn't life changing, as some people here have said, but it was certainly worth my time. It's a beautiful story, that is very well written, and I will probably read it again some day.
Interesting... November 13, 2008
Mr. Jamie D. Strachan (Leeds, UK)
An interesting one this. I found it a very different style of writing, with two people in the first tense. Whilst the ending was predictable it was still very moving.
At the beginning it took a while to get into due to the constant chopping and changing of Henry's time travelling, but this in a way gives you an insight into the characters way of life.
The detail in areas such as Claire's art work I felt was sometimes uneccessary along with the random sections of french and german text. If you don't speak the language whats the point?
I was reading this as part of my works book club, and if Im honest Im not sure I would have stuck with it to the end if it hadnt been for the Book club, however, it was an enjoyable read and would recommend it.
 It could have been so much more November 7, 2008
B.
The first half of Time Traveler's Wife was like a house on fire: so intense and well-framed that it seemed to suck the oxygen right out of the room. Then, around the time Henry and Claire began to try for a baby (and time travel was no longer the central focus) it, sadly, gave itself over to melodrama.
That's not to say it wasn't good; it was. But if Audrey Niffenegger had trusted us enough to understand Henry & Claire's connection, it could have been beyond great. Instead we're left with her spelling everything out in an overly simplified and often sappy way.
End result: on the strength of the first half alone, I'd heartily recommend Time Traveler's Wife. I just can't help feeling it could have been so much more...
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