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Autumn (3 KP) rated The Time Traveler's Wife in Books

Jan 18, 2018

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.2

(40 Ratings)

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this is a book i have to own. even before i was finished with it i wanted to read it a second time. it was so hard to finish just because i was so attached to the characters and their lives. it was like they nestled themselves into my heart and wouldn't let go.
unlike some other books where the author spouts off obscure literature and poetry and uses unrealistic prose this was very believable. their conversations, their actions, their passions. clare and henry felt like old friends. really amazing.
there was one tiny thing that bothered me though. it was niffenegger's religious comments. they weren't realistic. maybe to someone who grew up in the 60s but not in a post-feminist world. some didn't even make sense.

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Dalicat (20 KP) rated The Tin Roof Blowdown in Books

Sep 1, 2018

The Tin Roof Blowdown

James Lee Burke | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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A novel one lives rather than reads

Each of the fifteen Dave Robicheaux novels which preceded this one are masterpieces and this is the Grand Finale. The plot and characters move within the devasted landscape of New Orleans following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The scenes of environmental destruction are described with heartbreakingly beautiful poetic prose which serves as a counterpoint to a seering indictment of the socio-economic political landscape of the time. The extreme conditions under which the plot develops drive the characters to their limits of good and evil. The plot is as relentless as the driving force of the hurricane. Often difficult to read due to the sheer emotional weight of the work but too compelling to put down.