The Time Traveler's Wife | 
| Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Harvest Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1605 reviews
Sales Rank: 407
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 015602943X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780156029438
ASIN: 015602943X
Publication Date: May 27, 2004
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Product 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 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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 My favorite book, ever. May 2, 2008
Hands down. The most romantic thing I have ever read...but not in that romance-novel kind of way. I've been waiting and waiting for another novel by Niffenegger, but I'm sure this type of thing can't be done twice.
 Worst written book I've ever read April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hated every minute of reading this book. If I hadn't been reading it for my book club, I would have thrown it away after about 10 pages. And I'm not saying that for any "political" reason, as one reviewer said. I'm saying it because the book sucks! The characters were not endearing, or even interesting. The long, unnecessary and out-of-place details were distracting and annoying, and bogged down the flow of reading. Some of the things the writer has these characters saying are ridiculously unrealistic. The premise is interesting and original, but that's the only positive thing about the book. Save your money and time...skip this one!
 Too much work April 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading this book, I felt like I was reading a thesis on the cause and effects of macular degeneration or some other medical condition. It's too smart for it's own good ... the following back and forth through time got very boring after about the fourth chapter. Perhaps it was just the story line that didn't really hold my interest.
You'll fall in love with these characters April 25, 2008
I've never been interested in reading The Time Traveler's Wife, even though it's gotten tons of good reviews. The cover just kind of creeped me out and I thought the story sounded sad (it was) so I knew I wouldn't deal well with it. But it was chosen this month for the book club I'm in here, so my hand was forced.
The book is the story of Henry DeTamble, who has Chrono-Displacement Disorder. Causing him to travel back and forth through time. He doesn't go to any weird places like the time of the dinosaurs though which makes the book a little bit more believable. Even though I have a really hard time with time travelling books (because I'm constantly trying to dissect them and prove that there's a bad paradox in there), Niffenegger's story was so compelling that I couldn't stop reading.
I fell in love with both Henry and his wife, Clare. And I was devastated when things started to go wrong. This book made me cry way more than I would have liked and it made me think about time and death more than I would have liked, but I'm glad I read it.
Top 5 Best Books I've read April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow!! This book has left such an impression on me I just had to leave a review, something I've never done. From the very first page, I was captivated by the fluidity in transition from one vignette to another. I didn't necessarily fall in love with each personality or each relationship, at first. But just as I got to the last 150 pages and I spontaneously burst into tears, I realized how "one" I had become with the characters. This story of quirky love that defies norms and conditions, proves that love isn't always a fairy tale. A loving relationship is a times funny, unique, frustrating, weird, hard, easy. Sometimes you want to be so close you want to jump into the person yet at other times you want to be as far away as time and space will allow. This book is about survival, redemption, love, and loss: A cross between the bitterness and beauty of it all.
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