Monday, June 06, 2005

the time traveler's wife (round 2)


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, for those out there who were waiting, here it comes!!
This is the story of Clare and Henry who meet when Clare is 6 and Henry 36, and get married when Clare is 22 and Henry 30... Ah ah, how does that work?? Hum, well quite simply in fact, if you take into account that Henry has a genetic disorder that makes him travel back and forth in time with no control over it. Usually, he travels into the past, sometimes into the future, and always into time/places related to his own life.
More than being sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi such as me, it is a story about truuuue luv and longing, waiting, time and I guess distance...
At first, it's a bit confusing and hard to undertand how the notion of time works throughout the story but after a while, it becomes clear which is obviously greatly helped by the quality of the writting. The idea of time in spaces is interesting to think about because in the book, past, present and future all co-exist and happen at the same time, what has happened in the "future" will happen in the "past", and if that sounds like a determinist conception of life, what allows us to have control over our life is free will, the possibility to make any decision....once.
I found myself reading the book in two days (600 pages), incapable of putting it down. And a bit like the 6th sense (the movie with B. Willis), it makes you want to read it again to pick up everything that you missed the first time without knowing the rest of the story.
I found it very well written, considering how difficult the story would have been to plan, it seems to flow and make sense after a little while.
And a little bonus for the lazy ones, not pointing any fingers, the movie is in production....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Laura,

Please come back home with a copy and set it down on Jeannot's desk. Hope he will be more optimism after reading...

L.