Pi reviewed Arruga en el Tiempo by Madeleine L'Engle
Review of 'Arruga en el Tiempo' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
No sé si ponerle un 3 o un 4. Creo que le pondré 4 por ahora.
Published Jan. 10, 2012 by Listening Library (Audio).
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
4 stars
(47 reviews)
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!
Review of "A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
So happy I finally read this book. A magical and fantastic journey that left me smiling.
debby_joyblue reviewed A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
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).
Dubi reviewed A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
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'
2 stars
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 …
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 home with her father and Calvin, though the latter two were left on a strange planet when Meg went on her rescue mission. There is also the unresolved matter of the entity they were fighting which still seems to have it's claws in or on earth and Camazotz. I understand that it's part of a series but my impression is that it was originally a stand-alone novel.
Shannon Kay reviewed A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Review of 'A Wrinkle in Time' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
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!
