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Originally Posted by Brianna
Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. *sorry!* I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!)
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Oh thank goodness I'm not alone. I mean, sure, it was a reasonable concept, but I found the writing to be insipid, and I didn't care about the characters at all. In addition to all the hip-references, I found all the instances of sex to be really awkwardly crammed in as well (so to speak.) And the foreshadowing was anything but subtle. Anyway, I could see how people liked it as a bit of read-on-vacation fluff, but it was too "Oprah's Book Club" for me.