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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly t... (show more)
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I loved the time travel twist, but this is a love story, not science fiction. The brief mention of genetic sequencing, and transgenic time-traveling mice gave me a little smile from my former life.
As far as the love story goes, the fact that it *isn't* a "boy meets girl, overcomes issues, and they live happily ever after" sort of story makes it feel more authentic to me. They stumble, fight, and suffer together, and through it all, their love shines through. A book club question in the back asks if Henry and Clare are really such an unusual couple, and it seems to me like the answer is yes, but only in the details.
I've read this book twice. I love it. It's heartbreaking but such a beautiful love story.
Fantastic book - loved it and didn't want it to end. The end was quite bittersweet
twisted and amazing. romantic and sad. one to boast about on your bookshelf...
Loved it! I actually read this book from beginning to end, in that order. I normally skip to the last chapter to find out what happened, then skim the stuff in the middle.
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