I loved most of this book. The parts that I loved, I really loved, but they fully cover the parts that I didn’t like as much. The beginning was rather slow, so it was hard for me to get into. The middle was wonderful and I just couldn’t set it down. The end, however, failed to captivate me for some reason. Without sounding like a prude, I feel that the sex scenes were just too graphic for my taste and, for me, really took away from the magic and the mystery the rest of the book offered. I wish I could say that this book was “half-worth” consuming…but it was and interesting concept regardless and I did enjoy most of it. :/

At first I was very skeptical of a book about time-travel. I loved “A Wrinkle in Time” when I was 6, but lately my tastes are a little different. I kept hearing good things about it, however, and after the 6th or 7th rave review, I thought I should check it out. And it was truly the best book I’ve read in a long while. It’s real, which is a funny thing to say about a book on time travel, but nevertheless… Anyways, I cleared my calendar and read it all in one day. Highly recommended.

it’s just a great story. i love the characters, the premise, all of it. i’ve read it at least 3, maybe 4 times, and will surely read it again.

it really isn’t much of a sci-fi story at all, it’s a love story more than anything. but it’s a good one.

At first, it’s exciting, then engaging, then sad, then surprising.

I’ve just read it for the second time. I liked it just as much as the first.

I disagree with another critic here that without the names at the beginning of each paragraph you would not know who’s speaking to you (Clare or Henry). They both tell the story together from their individual view points, which makes interesting and entertaining reading.

This is more of a love story than the science fiction novel I was expecting. I listened it as an audiobook while my younger brother and I were driving from Seattle to L.A. I loved it, but Brother thought it was only ok. I can understand why we have this difference of opinion; the themes highlighted with the book really resonate with me at this point in my life, whereas they’re not so relevant to my brother. Also, it was a little awkward listening to the sex scenes…

I plan to read this book again (this time on paper!)

At first the story was interesting but after page 150 or so it got very repetitive. Man keeps travelling in time and visiting his wife (and himself) at different ages. They take turns to tell the reader ALL about they empty lifes in great detail: what they eat, wear, how they have sex (what goes where), the name of the streets they drive through, the restaurants they like to visit, how well-read and cultured they both are etc. Narrative of both characters reads equally the same, despite both coming from very different backgrounds. If their names were missing from the start of the chapter the reader coulnd’t tell who was narrating the story. Characters were dull selfish and pretentions; midway through this book I couldn’t care less about their fate.