The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Wednesday December 10, 2003
"The Time Traveler's Wife" is an inventively rendered tale of life, love, and time-travel with a healthy dose of art and letters and punk music thrown in for good measure.The author, Audrey Niffenegger, is a visual artist, and professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
In our recent interview, she discusses her work and her loves.
Read the prologue of The Time Traveler's Wife.
Read the interview with Audrey Niffenegger.
Comments
After reading so many good reviews about this book, I really tried to get into it. I even bought it, rather than borrowed it from the library, with high hopes. But several chapters into it, I just couldn’t stay with it. I didn’t find it engaging at all. I didn’t care about the characters. And it all seemed so shallow and cardboard. If someone has arguments for reading it, please let me know!
After reading this book and watching the movie, I am sad to report that the apocalypse is upon us. If the stream of jumps and interactions depicted in this story was really occurring the space-time continuum would have begun ripping itself to pieces and the Lord would have come to take his peoples home. That being said the idea for this book is intriguing. It brings to mind some of the occurrences from Halderman’s The Forever War from 1974. How the desperation to share of the experiences of one echoing through eternity in the failure to prevent mistakes from continuing to occur. A fun idea ruined by a lack of planning by the author. She spent too much time focused on the Lolita aspect of the story and too little on the echoes of choice.