The more I read The Time Traveler's Wife, the more I find myself picking up flaws. Well, maybe not flaws, but discord with my literary preferences. Nuances of writing style and amateurish plot direction catch me off guard while I read it sometimes and make me wish that the same story had been written by a different person. Someone with more sophistication. Someone who doesn't remind me of Nicholas Sparks (though I've never read his books, but saw The Notebook and it made me gag). I feel the plot building towards something and I have a strange feeling that it is going exactly where I think it will. I may be a sap but I'm not a sucker. Yet I'm still completely desirous of finishing the book because the premise is so interesting. I just think it will be one of those occasions when a story has so much potential and the end product doesn't live up to it. Can books be remade like movies can? I may want to assign this book to another author and then read it again. Maybe Andre Aciman? His words are truth and poetry. This book has neither. But it is a damn good beach read.
Janet
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