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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
I first tried to read this book as a kid. I was five years old and the library edition of this book had the coolest cover I had ever seen: obviously, the story inside of it would be just as great. I was five though, and realised very quickly that the book was a bit beyond my reading level - so I put it back on the shelf.
I didn't pick it up again until now, as an adult...young adult...and only after a trusted friend's recommendation.
It was fantastic. It's very rare that I read a book all in one shot (you see, this is pretty difficult if you're dyslexic, and also very busy with many other things), and sure this one wasn't very long (or difficult to read), but I read it all in one shot. That counts for something. It was enjoyable. Not to mention how the cover art of the library edition still captures my imagination (judge me all you want about my obsession with books' covers; I'm an artist, and book cover illustrations are fairly relevant to my interests with art), bonus points there.
Sometimes, rarely, I'll read something - someone's thoughts, or fiction, and everything just clicks. In the most cliche sense, I feel like the speaker/author and I have the same imagination, like we are seeing the same things through different lenses. I rarely come across this feeling, so when main aspects of this book gravitated around shadows, something controlling called 'central', greek mythological references, and references to modern science - I was thrilled. I understood it all.
I even understood all of the subtle (and overt) Biblical references. These I was not so pleased with. The subtle references are understandable, they show an understanding of the basis of old Western culture if anything, and Biblical references in Western literature has been very common and cultural almost for the past 1000 years. I can deal with the subtle references. I can appreciate those to some degree. I do not like the overt Biblical quotations, quotations of Christian hymns, and how all of the characters openly attributed one thing or another to god or the Christian religion. I see many people comparing this book to the works by C.S. Lewis. I disagree. C.S. Lewis' writing was overtly religious, but in a symbolic and literary way. The religious aspect of 'A Wrinkle in Time' was just annoying. Granted, I'm not religious at all, so I'm sure I am biased in some way. Otherwise, this book was fantastic.
I didn't pick it up again until now, as an adult...young adult...and only after a trusted friend's recommendation.
It was fantastic. It's very rare that I read a book all in one shot (you see, this is pretty difficult if you're dyslexic, and also very busy with many other things), and sure this one wasn't very long (or difficult to read), but I read it all in one shot. That counts for something. It was enjoyable. Not to mention how the cover art of the library edition still captures my imagination (judge me all you want about my obsession with books' covers; I'm an artist, and book cover illustrations are fairly relevant to my interests with art), bonus points there.
Sometimes, rarely, I'll read something - someone's thoughts, or fiction, and everything just clicks. In the most cliche sense, I feel like the speaker/author and I have the same imagination, like we are seeing the same things through different lenses. I rarely come across this feeling, so when main aspects of this book gravitated around shadows, something controlling called 'central', greek mythological references, and references to modern science - I was thrilled. I understood it all.
I even understood all of the subtle (and overt) Biblical references. These I was not so pleased with. The subtle references are understandable, they show an understanding of the basis of old Western culture if anything, and Biblical references in Western literature has been very common and cultural almost for the past 1000 years. I can deal with the subtle references. I can appreciate those to some degree. I do not like the overt Biblical quotations, quotations of Christian hymns, and how all of the characters openly attributed one thing or another to god or the Christian religion. I see many people comparing this book to the works by C.S. Lewis. I disagree. C.S. Lewis' writing was overtly religious, but in a symbolic and literary way. The religious aspect of 'A Wrinkle in Time' was just annoying. Granted, I'm not religious at all, so I'm sure I am biased in some way. Otherwise, this book was fantastic.
Strange and amazing, this surreal novel fostered interest in my for time, space, and dimension travel. Love it, I've read it multiple times and it maintains the greatness of when I first read it.
adventurous
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I picked this up on a tip from a character in a Japanese TV drama (I think it was in "The Journalist" with Yonekura Ryoko,) and was surprised and a little disappointed to find that it's clearly in the Young Adult or even Juvenile Fiction genre. That's not to say there aren't books within that genre that are edifying for adult readers - the obvious example is J.K. Rowling starting a series as YA and quickly elevating it to the complexity and depth of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"; Lewis' "Narnia" books have ample depth and thematic material; and though Joan Aiken never got to the level of either, her "Wolves" series is worthy entertainment for adults regardless.
"Wrinkle in Time" was first published in 1962 and reflects that time and it's a good story - but with a depth limited to maybe an early- to mid-teen level. It's a story of three children who are "different" - picked-on outcasts whose outside-the-box intellect is mistaken as, alternately, social nerdiness and academic slacking - who embark on a quest for a missing person that traverses space-time, via the help of some strange, otherworldly characters.
It gets off to a slow start and ends rather abruptly - so an adjustment to consistency in pacing, at either end, would've made it a better book. There is a mystical content which, along with the wormhole-enabled planet-hopping is reminiscent of Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra," but which manages to be subtle enough to avoid the pitfall of overt religious preachiness. There is also a hefty thematic exposition of dystopian collectivism in the story's villain, which evil is unambiguously identified as such. The identification of individualism as its antidote is less-clear but not hard to figure out, I'm thinking even for a young reader.
I bought this in a five-book omnibus edition so will likely read them all (they're only a day or two's investment of time, even for "glacial"-pace readers,) but I'm disappointed this wasn't weightier. I'm hoping the series will gain more depth in subsequent volumes.
"Wrinkle in Time" was first published in 1962 and reflects that time and it's a good story - but with a depth limited to maybe an early- to mid-teen level. It's a story of three children who are "different" - picked-on outcasts whose outside-the-box intellect is mistaken as, alternately, social nerdiness and academic slacking - who embark on a quest for a missing person that traverses space-time, via the help of some strange, otherworldly characters.
It gets off to a slow start and ends rather abruptly - so an adjustment to consistency in pacing, at either end, would've made it a better book. There is a mystical content which, along with the wormhole-enabled planet-hopping is reminiscent of Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra," but which manages to be subtle enough to avoid the pitfall of overt religious preachiness. There is also a hefty thematic exposition of dystopian collectivism in the story's villain, which evil is unambiguously identified as such. The identification of individualism as its antidote is less-clear but not hard to figure out, I'm thinking even for a young reader.
I bought this in a five-book omnibus edition so will likely read them all (they're only a day or two's investment of time, even for "glacial"-pace readers,) but I'm disappointed this wasn't weightier. I'm hoping the series will gain more depth in subsequent volumes.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Ok, I recognize this is a remarkable work that’s both deeply clever and intensely meaningful, and the metanarrative alone makes it valuable, I do not like Meg, and I think the prose is too technical to be beautiful. There’s is an absence of music to the writing that disappointments me
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So ambitious and thought-provoking! Wish I had read it as a kid. But having read it for the first time now, I really liked it. The only thing is, it felt like it ended really abruptly. They saved Charles Wallace, but the black thing is still there, isn't it? Maybe that'll get explored more in the next 4 books.