A Wrinkle in Time

Published Jan. 13, 1962 by Bantam.

ISBN:
978-0-440-49805-6
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A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also has a movie! I Hope you all enjoy!

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Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Goodreads'

This didn't hold up for me, compared to my childhood experience reading it. Now, I'd probably rate it slightly below 3. The version to which I listened was narrated by the author (not a positive, in this case).

reviewed A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Time Quintet, #1)

Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Goodreads'

Afraid it hasn't aged very well. Plus, the tangential anti-communist and religious undertones were kind of a turn off to me. But I guess in context it's more forgivable.

Review of "A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)" on 'Goodreads'

I had high hopes for this, but was ultimately disappointed.

There is a theme of taking responsibility and going above and beyond the call of duty which to my mind contrasts poorly with the occasional interjections of "put your faith in God and everything will turn out all right". I find that the allusions to the science suffer from the same kind of metaphysical waffling. Supposedly Meg's father is a brilliant physicist, but tessering and tesseract is presented as something he and his colleagues have just stumbled upon and have no real idea of how it would work. I'm not expecting hard sci-fi and/or a physics essay in the middle of a children's or YA novel, but to my mind A Wrinkle in Time misrepresents scientists and the way they work.

Another thing I found unsatisfactory was the rather abrupt ending, where Meg after rescuing Charles Wallace is transported directly …

Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Storygraph'

I wish I had read this as a kid, but I never did. In fact, I somehow managed to not hear much about it but the title. I think the title was the problem, actually. My mind focused on the "wrinkle" part and for some reason I imagined an old woman's wrinkled face. I remember hearing other kids say they liked it in childhood, but nobody had ever said any more about it. I finally read this book in the last couple years after finally reading about the author and figuring out that it wasn't really about an old woman, and it was beautiful. I wish I'd read it sooner!

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