anyone read.....

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The American Boy by Andrew Taylor or The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger?

Just bought them in Smiths on buy one get one half price. they look good but want others opinion on them if you have read them.

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Time Traveller's Wife -think it is same one but don't recongise the author. Read it for a book club. Took a bit of getting into and is a bit strange.

Its about Clare and Henry who meet when she is 6 and he is 36. They marry when she is 22 and he is 30. Impossible - but true because he suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future.

That's the one! It flicks about a lot so you need to concentrate because you sometimes see events from her perspective, sometimes his and sometimes both ! A few are revisited so that they fit into the chronology and then you get both versions, but at different stages of the narrative ! Quite poignant in places.

read the American Boy. good but doesn't half go on a bit. also felt that the Edgar Allan Poe theme was a bit overworked iyswim. nice gothicky thriller.

Am reading the Time Traveler's Wife at the moment - really enjoying it!

Just noticed this thread, I read the Time travellers Wife when it was first published , early last year I think. I LOVED it.
Read it and let me know what you think, I would love to know what someone else thinks of it.

I finished reading TTTW a couple of weeks ago and LOVED it too. The fact that Hanry wasn't always a very sympathetic character meant that it wasn't a sugary sweet story. It was beautifully written and very clever. I wonder how she managed to keep track of all time travelling when writing it? The ending was perfect - definately one of my all time favourites.