A Wrinkle in Time

September 20, 2017
At my S.O.'s urging I took this book up again - this time, though, reading with my eyeballs as there's simply no way that I could tolerate the librarian's patronizing voice. While I didn't find it to be as awesome as my lady's (undoubtedly time-tainted) memory, it was definitely better than what I'd remembered from my first attempt 6 years ago. Still think that the time travel spin is a bit of an oversell. The 5 y/o genius was definitely more tolerable without an irritating voice behind him. Interestingly, the religious tones in the part that I'd read before seemed much more subtle this time (although there was a bit more in the second half of the book, especially near the end).
I'm pleased that this was a short book, but the ending was still a bit rushed, and frankly, it doesn't seem like there's enough material in this book alone to pad out the entirety of the upcoming movie.
In general, this book was meh. I probably would've loved it if I'd read it as a kid, but as a near-50-year-old... meh.


June 20, 2011
I made it about halfway through before I had to bail. Very little about time travel - more about travel from planet to planet fighting EVIL. A little too heavy on religious overtones. 5 y/o genius was just too unbelievable of a character. Also: boring as hell, and I couldn't stand the author's narration, which sounded exactly like a librarian reading it at story time. ( )

This is a good kid read I reckon :O)
Charles, Meg & their friend Calvin 'tesser' through time to save Meg & Charle's dad with the help of the three Mrs. Unsurprisingly they encounter a few problems along the way.....
I pretty much finished this the day after I started it (I had a very lazy Saturday!) I enjoyed it but considering I didn't read it when I was little & was reading it totally from an adult's point of view I didn't have the 'childlike wonder' you sorta need for this series I reckon.
I found the changeover from science to Christianity a bit clunky although I don't think it would have really mattered so much if I was still little lol! It's very much a children's book in so much as it uses very simple language which I was sort of surprised about as it is sposed to be a scifi classic but that my be down to the fact I was reading the 'movie cover version'. Maybe they simplified the language a little, I don't know. Anyway, it's a very enjoyable read either way but I'm not going to put it in the library because it does mention Buddha & another false god & given that it's a kids book, I don't think that's appropriate.

Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

Meg Murray is a wonderful character and she really shines in this book. This book starts all the wonderful l'Engle series off. This book actually made me intrigued by math an science which I normally hate. Great and fun read. ( )

Even more weird and amazing than I remembered. ( )