The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 522 pages

Ratings565

Average rating3.9

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I still suspect that if you think realllllly hard about Niffenegger's conceptualization of time travel, there would be some practical holes, but who wants to think too hard about a novel? I stole this off a friend's bookshelf on a weekend trip to Berkeley, and was done in time to return it to her. I enjoyed the prose style and the characters, flawed in all their glory, but I think the real triumph of the book is her exploration of how a few simple folds in our linear conception of time might result in life-altering wrinkles. Also, I'm a sucker for a messy love story, and for novelists who let their characters have great sex.

October 1, 2008