The Time Traveler's Wife
Jul. 10th, 2006 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI just completed The Time Traveler's Wife.
Oh. Oh. Oh my.
That's one of the best books I've read in a while, and certainly one of the best romances I've read in a long time. (I don't read many romances.) It was... different. Odd. Strangely structured but beautifully delivered. Thoroughly satisfying. Happy, sad, and everything in between. Utterly and completely romantic. It's left me with the same romantic rush that I got from Moulin Rouge and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, only this was heavier than either of those two.
It's also given me a totally different perspective on the end of this season's Doctor Who. But that's off-topic.
Anyway... Oh. My. Wow. This book is great and moving and sad and happy and I think anyone who reads it could love it, male or female. The book alternates 50/50 from the perspectives of the two lead characters, meaning you spend as much time in Henry's head as you do Clare's, and vice versa. The characters are very real, with their flaws and their virtues. It's very unusual but it's so worth it.
Note: this is the second fiction book I've completed this year in between classes, the previous being Memoirs of a Geisha. While I enjoyed Memoirs, I have to say that The Time Traveler's Wife was a better written and more moving book.
Oh. Oh. Oh my.
That's one of the best books I've read in a while, and certainly one of the best romances I've read in a long time. (I don't read many romances.) It was... different. Odd. Strangely structured but beautifully delivered. Thoroughly satisfying. Happy, sad, and everything in between. Utterly and completely romantic. It's left me with the same romantic rush that I got from Moulin Rouge and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, only this was heavier than either of those two.
It's also given me a totally different perspective on the end of this season's Doctor Who. But that's off-topic.
Anyway... Oh. My. Wow. This book is great and moving and sad and happy and I think anyone who reads it could love it, male or female. The book alternates 50/50 from the perspectives of the two lead characters, meaning you spend as much time in Henry's head as you do Clare's, and vice versa. The characters are very real, with their flaws and their virtues. It's very unusual but it's so worth it.
Note: this is the second fiction book I've completed this year in between classes, the previous being Memoirs of a Geisha. While I enjoyed Memoirs, I have to say that The Time Traveler's Wife was a better written and more moving book.
