The Time Traveler's Wife

Name: The Time Traveler's Wife
ISBN: 9781665154567

by Audrey Niffenegger · first published 2003

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Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unp

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aerovistae · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

…a lesser extent A Deepness in the Sky. Also Excession, whose human characters are poorly developed and written but whose world-building and AI characters are amazing. Terrific fantasy reads were The Time-Traveler's Wife, as well as The Name of the Wind and its sequel The Wise Man's Fear. The latter two have rather bad writing and TERRIBLE female characters, but the story is extremely engrossing anyway and some of the…
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jing · Oct 3, 2010 · Recommends

…Mr. Feynman Papillon Into Thin Air Born on a Blue Day Touching the Void Got Fight The Conquest of Happiness --- FICTION --- Switch Bitch Lost Horizon The Cuckoo's Egg The Simlarillion The Time Traveler's Wife The Alchemist The Count of Monte Cristo A Canticle for Leibowitz Neverwhere My Uncle Oswald Stories of Your Life and Others Invisible Cities Life of Pi Atlas Shrugged --- WALL STREET / FINANCE…
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JacobAldridge · Sep 21, 2010 · Mentions

I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife and this post gave me flashbacks. Pseudorandomness or unalterable fate? Neither provides guaranteed success, so I wish you much luck with both ventures.
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rlander · Nov 3, 2010 · Mentions

* The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (audiobook) * Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (kindle) * Erlang Programming by Francesco Cesarini (rereading mostly because of the excellent exercises)
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shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Mentions

19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
darkxanthos · Sep 1, 2009 · Mentions

Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife... Working on GEB, and Ulysses (also a simple French reader and Le Petit Prince since I'm just learning French). I also got a book about Ulysses to help me glean as much as possible out of this intellectual…
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sdrothrock · Sep 12, 2018 · Mentions

…foreknowledge of plot and detail color your experience of reading the book such that successive rereads each have a different character in many cases. Imagine the first time you read a book like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, Never Let Me Go, A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, imagine the second time reading through any of those books; the experience will be…
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stevenwoo · Dec 21, 2022 · Mentions

To spoil an old book, this happens in The Time Traveler's Wife, and the character does have that thought.
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