I hung with it and in the end enjoyed it ... I gave up trying to keep the times straight...just enjoy...its a love story.
Halsgal - thank you. I will try again.
I guess I'll give it another try also. Thanks for replying. Kitty
I quit reading anything involving time travel as it gives my brain an ache.
This book has been made into a movie, which I haven't seen. We read it in a book club a while back. Most of us thought it was a very good story. The time-traveling can get a bit hard to follow.
I loved this book. I'm not a big fan of science fiction or time travel books, generally, but this book was much more about the relationship between the two characters than about the wizardry of the time traveling. I thought, really, that Niffenegger uses the idea of the two characters traveling in different directions through time to say something profound about the nature of marriage. Really, any husband and wife are on journeys through life that are very individual and different, and we have to accept that we come to all of the experiences we share from very different perspectives, and yet we can still love each other very deeply.
I read it and loved it....it does take some time to get into but I really enjoyed and have even reread it!
I read the book twice, once on my own and once for a Book group. It required a bit more concentration than I anticipated (I had brought it to read on a long plane flight but it proved much too complicated for that hectic setting!), but ultimately it was well worth the effort. Like WorldSoWide, I found the author's depiction of the complex relationship between husband and wife very poignant. Maybe because I've been an expat trailing spouse for the past six years and have spent a lot of time alone, waiting for my husband to come home I could readily identify with Clare's situation. The movie, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, is due to be released in August, and I look forward to seeing it.
I enjoyed this book a lot too. I thought she did an excellent job of creating interesting and complex characters and situations. And the book has a good ending that ties up all of the loose ends. I hope the movie is as good as the book.
I read this book when it first came out a few years ago and I loved it. I thought it was very interesting that in this time travel story, unlike most, the travel was not a deliberate goal brought about by some machine or magic portal. For Henry, the "flips' through time happened spontaneously, like a seizure, and were completely beyond his control. I saw it as a metaphor for the ultimate lack of control that any of us has over anything in our lives - that the sense we have of controlling things is just an illusion, and that all we can really control is how we react to people and events. Clare learned this as well, as she waited, unable to follow, for the husband that she loved to return time and time again. Ultimately though, I agree that it was a beautiful love story of two people determined to always find their way home to one another.
