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The Time Travellers Wife Thread Contains Spoilers!

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Flamesparrow · 27/06/2008 20:17

There!

I worry about spoilers

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Nagapie · 17/07/2008 17:34

Read it again - still utter drivel...

StarlightMcKenzie · 08/07/2008 00:38

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bythepowerofgreyskull · 07/07/2008 10:50

I enjoyed it alot but as a ligth hearted read.

BeachBunni · 07/07/2008 10:46

Omg EmmaLou. I loved Charlotte Sometimes as a kid. Had a really old hardbacked version of the book and can still remember the glass of green marbles on the picture at the front.

Have to say tho wasn't fussed on the Time Travellers Wife. Didn't live up to all the hype.

EmmyLou · 06/07/2008 20:11

I get Tom's Midnight Garden mixed up with The Secret Garden. Does Tom time travel then?

Talking of children's books, 'Charlotte Sometimes' had an interesting take on time travel. I always took the explanation of Charlotte's time travel as the definitive one...(you can't travel forwards in time as you can't exist in two places).

Hmm. Must invite David Tennant over to explain time travel to me in much greater depth.

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LobstersLass · 05/07/2008 23:49

I rather enjoyed it.
It's not the best book I've ever read, but I thought it was lovely.

EmmyLou · 05/07/2008 23:32

Flibbertyjibbert - it's not dire! It's definitely flawed, but parts are by turns interesting, touching and clever.

Flibbertyjibbet · 05/07/2008 23:24

Ok does anyone want my copy of the Time Travellers Wife ffp?
I don't usually read fiction but picked it up in the charity shop, can't get past the first chapter and have no intention of trying, as too many people on here have said its dire.
Too much shimmering and glimmering is the usually comment about it.

EmmyLou · 05/07/2008 23:16

Would read TTW anytime over The Lovely Bones, but then I tend to avoid thrillers and novels with reverberations of Silent Witness. I remember nothing optimistic about The Lovely Bones - crawling into cellars and rubbish dumps yes, but no olive branch type hint at anything life affirming.

But am I remembering correctly?

Or am I just a plot-wimp?

IpreferNadal · 03/07/2008 18:37

Thought Lovely Bones was good - except last bits. HATED what i did manage to read of Time Travellers Wife.

plumandolive · 03/07/2008 18:28

I thought it was just me who disliked it. I read it at around the same time as The Lovely bones, and couldn't see what all the hype was around that either.

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Flamesparrow · 03/07/2008 18:22

I feel like reading it again knowing how many people seem to have hated it!

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Thefearlessfreak · 03/07/2008 17:52

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Nagapie · 03/07/2008 17:32

Emmylou - I have just reserved the book at our local library so I can remind myself why I hated it/was so dismissive of the book...

EmmyLou · 03/07/2008 17:21

It's odd. When I read it, I found it interesting but contrived with irritating bits that really got on my nerves. I think trying to 'organise' the time travel concept in my mind disracted me from the story.

Two years after reading it, parts have really stayed with me - very strong images spring to mind when I think about it, and now I'm at the stage where I would really love to read it again.

Spaceman · 03/07/2008 17:11

Thanks for the tip. I've just done that. Don't want to ruin it for anyone!!!!

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Flamesparrow · 03/07/2008 17:00

Lol Spaceman - I did love the way you asked afterwards If you press the red ! at the end of your post, you can ask em to delete it. The spoiler warngin thread containing spoilers is a bit weird

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oggsfrog · 03/07/2008 16:54

I absolutely loved the book.
I cried at intervals throughout it and blubbed buckets at the end.
I also cried buckets at Under The Skin by Michel Faber.
God, I love a good read

oopsadaisyangel · 03/07/2008 16:51

I loved it but then again I love trashy novels

Spaceman · 03/07/2008 16:49

Oh sh*t. Sorry all.
Ummmmm it's a great book and everyone should read it. There.

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Flamesparrow · 03/07/2008 16:43

Spoilers are when people say what happens in the book... like you did

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Spaceman · 03/07/2008 16:43

What do you mean by spoilers by the way?

Spaceman · 03/07/2008 16:42

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bergentulip · 03/07/2008 16:33

I think it was a load of bogshite.....

sorry to all those that enjoyed it. I too, like northernrefugee, have forgotten most it.
About some bloke turning up all over the place naked as far as I recall.