The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 522 pages

Ratings705

Average rating3.9

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It's the kind of book that reveals how much of a fun exercise fiction could be, especially sci-fi/fantasy. The premise is intriguing right off the bat, but also it deals with so many ethical blurred lines, and that's when fiction becomes interesting. This is not something that is happening in real life, for people to act all offended and snooty, this happens in this virtual reality with different laws of physics, which makes us question and analyse our own (what i look for in fiction myself). Also everything that deals with time travel, fate and self-fulfilled prophecies are always interesting to me. Would Clare fall for Henry if he hadn't been visiting her since she was a kid, and somehow grooming her? And didn't Clare change Henry to become his future self that she had already fallen in love with. Haven't they changed their future by knowing it beforehand and acting towards it, fulfilling their own fate all knowingly? And where does free will come in? That is why I love time travel stories, and why I really enjoyed this impressive complicatedly built one. A really bittersweet love story.
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I just don't care about people going off on the need for fiction to be pure and devoid of “problematic” characters, cause these people are worse than puritans, as they're masquerading as progressives. I can imagine people who will never read this book cause “it's creepy”. Just read the books yourselves damn it, and stop acting all edgy borrowing other people's opinions.

May 27, 2020