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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
"This book, it's about a man and a woman and it first starts out in the present tense, so to speak. But he has some sort of gift, I guess you could say, some sort of genetic anomaly that he's able to time travel and he can't control it, so it happens randomly. And he tends to always go towards, go to some time or some place that is attached to his life.
So, he's gone back to his childhood many, many times. When he was, I think in his late 20's, he first going to see a little girl at her parent's house. And the weird twist is even though he's in his late 20's and she's a little girl, somehow they fell in love at this point because he knew that she was going to be his wife in the future. And she didn't know that. It's very complicated, but you know it's a nice love story. And if you think too much about the actual time travel aspect, you're going to hurt your brain.
But, the basis of it is it's a love story and the addition to the time traveling is just sort of, like you know a fantasy thing. It's fun. It was definitely a romantic fantasy in that it's like soul mates you know they definitely are soul mates. The weird part about it is she knows her entire childhood who she's going to be with, so it takes out a little bit of the romanticism of trying to find that person, if that person does exist. So in a way she's kind of spoiled. She already gets it written down for her in history.
So, it questions the whole thing, you know free will and is there fate or not? For them there's fate apparently. She already knows who she's going to be with and it's all laid out.
I'd say you have to suspend any concept of the space-time continuum. And you know whether going back in the history, going back in the past, then change to the future, and yeah, you absolutely can't think about that. It's just all about the story.
I would give this, four stars."
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