A Wrinkle in Time
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Meg doesn't fit in but all the qualities that make her unique are the ones that will help her save her father
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Add a QuoteLike and equal are entirely different things! --Meg to IT/Charles Wallace
"The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling , brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are."
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Add a SummaryOne night, a mysterious stranger arrives at the Murry household. Meg and her little brother Charles Wallace quickly become involved, and with the help of Calvin O'Keefe they assist three women to help a planet taken over by an evil consciousness called IT, which seeks to erase all uniqueness. Along the way Meg finds secrets about her father, love, and being who you are.
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
lms
Mar 17, 2008
Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search for their father. His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away and the children search through time and space top find him. ( Novelist Review)
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Add a CommentThis is wonderful tale of children time travelling to save their father.
I did not enjoy this book as much as I anticipated. I liked the author's thought in this book but I think the book was ahead of its time and seemed too complex to be a children's book. I liked the characters, especially Meg due to her love of mathematics and science. I disliked the other characters because they seemed irrelevant to the plot (unlike Meg). The plot was well-organized yet difficult to follow. It almost seemed the author was putting too much information into a fairly small amount of words. I would only recommend this book for people who are able to comprehend a wide variety of words. I gave this book a 7/10 because of the author's inability to explain complex things simplistically, but it overall was still a decent read.
I read this book in 6th grade and it continues today to be one of my favorite books!
A wrinkle in time has the same old fashioned feeling but it is still amazing! The movie was incredible! It deals with similar problems kids in school do!
I really enjoyed this book! I liked that it explained how everyone is different! I also liked that it talks about playing to your flaws!
An interesting books which must have been way ahead of its time. Children employ a tesseract, a wrinkle in time, to move between planets to rescue their father who is held prisoner by a warped, evil intelligence. There are enough "good Guys" and "Bad guys" to make it interesting; I wish the author had not brought in religion as it was quite unnecessary. The ultimate climax is as expected but fitting in a children's story.
Thank you, Meg, for reminding me of how to use my flaws; when I read this book as a child, and again now that I'm grown.
good book
A decent story line had the book on track to be around a 8.5/10 and a Would Recommend if Interested, but one of the most cliche final battles of all time bombed the book down to a Would Not Recommend and a 7/10
I say these words with the anticipation of backlash from people who love this classic- but I really didn't enjoy this book (to put it nicely).
What I did like about this book (and what kept me going) were a few things. I liked that Meg, our protagonist, is a girl who likes math and science. I also liked the very rich language from Madeleine L'Engle, she definitely had a knack for it and she wasn't afraid to put big, lush words in a children's book.
Now what I didn't care for were the heavy-handed, super-obvious nods towards Christianity, etc. I didn't mind so much the whole "battle of good vs evil" (let's be real that's how just about every book works) but I think this was just too much. And Meg was annoying! If she wasn't complaining or being a spazz her brother was the one calming her down. It definitely put a damper on her getting the chance to be this strong, female lead.
Really I'd rate it 1 star cause I truly didn't like it, but I gave it a kudos star for L'Engle's writing which made up for it.
Glad I've crossed a classic off my list- but it was painful.