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I'm on about page 150 of The Time Traveller's Wife and I'm fing it a bit tedious.

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Tinker · 20/03/2009 19:15

Is it really worth finishing? I probably will just because I'll want to know if it was worth it but I don't care about either Henry or Claire yet. Will I?

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GypsyMoth · 20/03/2009 19:17

No idea! It's sat here on my shelf,just couldn't get into it despite everyone saying it's a good read.

Tinker · 20/03/2009 19:19

I've got 2 copies. Bought another because I'd forgotten I'd bought it ages ago.

The time travelling is getting on my bloody nerves.

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Hassled · 20/03/2009 19:19

It is worth finishing. I did cry like a baby from a certain point onwards, mind you. It is heartbreaking at times, but a great book.

piscesmoon · 20/03/2009 19:20

Everyone else seems to like it but I found it very tedious, although I did get to the end. I know some people cried but I couldn't engage emotionally with the characters.

Tinker · 20/03/2009 19:20

Just spotted my title Finding.

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bigTillyMint · 20/03/2009 19:21

Oh persevere - it is one of my fav books.

Tinker · 20/03/2009 19:23

When will it click? Halfway in? Maybe I'm reading too short an amount each time and I need to throw myself into it

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liath · 20/03/2009 19:26

I found it very tedious & couldn't enagage at all with the protagonists. Just read the last few pages and that will tell you what heppens in the end without having to bother with the tedious lead up.

bigTillyMint · 20/03/2009 19:26

Well, I seem to remember my initial thoughts were that it was a bit unbelieveable, but read a good long chunk in one go and maybe you will get into it

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Tinker · 20/03/2009 19:28

"that it was a bit unbelieveable"

Think that's the problem for me. Also, does she know when he's going to disappear? How does she make any plans if not?

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nickytwotimes · 20/03/2009 19:32

I nearly lost the will to live reading it. I was bored out my mind.

Same with Captain bloody wattsit and The English Patient.

MissisBoot · 20/03/2009 19:34

I couldn't get into this either - never finished it

Salleroo · 20/03/2009 19:47

I remember it took a while, but it is brilliant. Then again its one of those books that falls very distinctly into the love it or hate it camp. My mother gave it back to me after trying and trying with no success.

tassisssss · 20/03/2009 19:48

I persevered, but didn't love it. Bit too surreal for me.

BlueBumedFly · 20/03/2009 19:48

I loved it!!!

MrsMattie · 20/03/2009 19:49

I couldn't finish it. I thought it was utter bollocks.

DisasterArea · 20/03/2009 19:49

i love love love this book. keep at it. suspend disbelief (it is about a chrono-displaced person after all). it gets easier as you work out who is how old, where and when.
just a tip. don't read on new years eve. ever.

WowOoo · 20/03/2009 19:50

Didn't finish it either.

emmabemmasmom · 20/03/2009 19:56

Worth it to finish. It is a great book.

Dysgu · 20/03/2009 20:10

I had to keep re-starting this book after a friend recommedned it. Had to leave it until the school holidays - I am a teacher - to have enough time to read it at length. Great book when you get into it and 'unrealistic' books are not usually my thing. Keep trying! Or give up and come back to it in a month or so.

KHS · 20/03/2009 20:28

I cried my eyes out towards the end but I did still think that it was a very, very silly book indeed. So I wouldn't worry about it if you'd rather move on to something more intellectually stimulating!

admylin · 20/03/2009 20:33

It's worth it, I also cried at the end but I did struggle to get into it.

permatired · 20/03/2009 20:37

I too had to restart a couple of times then finally "did it" when it came up at book club I go to. Most people loved it and I have to say not only did I love it but even now a year down the line I often think back on it, so I'd definitely persevere (or you could just wait for the film, due out this year, which stars the lovely Eric Bana - swoon - as Henry!)

spicemonster · 20/03/2009 20:39

I thought it was a bit meh. But was pissed off by my friend pressing it onto me when I was pregnant (with a baby I lost to miscarriage). I could have done without all that tbh