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Summary: High and Dry
Review: I love L'Engle's writing. Particularly "The Time Quartet." Each book, while exploring time and space and spiritual battles between good and evil, has also been creative throughout. Yes, "Many Waters" starts off with a fresh idea and setting. I loved getting to know Meg's brothers, the twins. I enjoyed the descriptions of the seraphim and nephilim, and the clear connections to angels and fallen angels. I also thought L'Engle handled the adolescent struggles of the boys in a mature way.The problem for me was that the story became tedious. The conflict was minimal, compared to previous books, and the main thing I looked forward to was the coming of the many waters, the description of the great flood as told of in biblical accounts. But it never came. L'Engle wimped out on her one trump card. She refused to play the card and truly open a past world to us. In this, I was sorely disappointed. She has the ability and the imagination to do amazing things. Yet, here she left me high and dry. I recommend the book as a part of the series, but alone it is far from my favorite.
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Summary: A Miraculous Finish to the Time Quartet: Many Waters
Review: Again, Madeleine L'Engle puts forth yet another triumph. Many Waters is a unique heart warming story that almost all can relate to and enjoy. However, this tale is no children's story. L'engle fills the adventure of Sandy and Dennys Murry with romance, rich vocabulary, Biblical stories and theories, and more adult criteria. Indeed, it would not be wise to read this book and not be accustomed to the story of Noah's Arc. For the correct audience this book is perfection! Many Waters takes its readers on aventures almost unthinkable by the average human mind. L'Engle, again, displays her brilliance and absolutely perfect imagination.
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Summary: Well-written adventure with a dash of teen angst
Review: For me, this book was an all-time favorite of mine through my teen years. I picked it up at the age of fourteen and read it in a day, barely stopping to eat! I completely fell in love with the Murray twins, Sandy and Dennys, who are learning not only to cope with the onslaughts of puberty, but with their odd-man-out status in a family of extra-extraordinary individuals. I loved "A Wrinkle In Time" as a child, but I loved the fact that L'Engle gave the twins their own shot at an supernatural adventure, which in turn helps them with the transition into manhood and discovering who they really are. A snowstorm forces the fifteen-year-old twins indoors from an impromtu hockey game. They are alone in the Murray house, and soon boredom sets in, leading the boys to start snooping in their father's labratory. A time machine is unwittingly discovered, the boys wish for "some place warm and dry", and the next thing they know, they are whisked away to a strange desert, not knowing that their father's invention has transported them to the Biblical times of Noah and the great flood. Here they discover that humans live for hundreds of years, that nephilims (angels thrown down from heaven) are the bad guys, and seraphim (good angels still in the service of God) are the good guys. Noah has just been told by God to build an ark, but everyone, including his children, thinks he's crazy. Yet with the twins' help, God's will is eventually carried out, but with a price. Much angst, adventure, conspiracy, violence, romance and Biblical lessons insue. I'll say one thing--Sunday school never taught you THIS about the famous story of Genesis! L'Engle flawlessly incorporates Biblical texts with her own fictional twists. The end result is a wonderful read that will make you adore the members of the Murray family even more.
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Summary: Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover.
Review: I read Many Waters because I had read the books before it and loved it. When I was in a bookstore I thought oh... that cover looks intersesting so I picked it up and bought it. I brought it home and after the first three chapters I couldn't read anymore. The book was dull and slow moving. I forced myself to read more thinking that it would get better. Maybe it got a little better, but not much. Some people loved this book, but I think that it was really dull.
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Summary: An Amazing Fantasy Book
Review: This is an amazing book. I loved it. I would recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy. It is a sequel to A Wrinkle in Time. This book is about Sandy and Dennys Murry. They "think" they are the ordinary people in the Murry family and compared to the rest of the family, they are. One day when they came home from school they went into their mother and father's lab to get the hot cocoa. Their father had a new experiment in the lab and they started to press buttons and make wishes. After they left the lab they saw the "Do Not Enter, Experiment in Progress" sign on the door, but they were too late. They are transported to a time and place that they do not know. If you read it you can find out where and when they were transported to. They meet some terrible and some lovely people. They have many new friends that they don't want to leave, but unfortunately have to. This book has everything a book should have. Fantasy, mystery, horror, suspense, romance, and history. This is a book for everyone.
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Summary: as good as it gets
Review: wow this book was great the book took a whole new turn the conflict of resiting temtation as always seemed great in the seires but in this book it seems to really show i really liked hoe the author used the twins sandy and deny for this story it shows that even the normal ones have bumps in the road evintully this book is one of those books that when you pick it up youu cant put it back down all in all this book ill recomend for people in love eith madaline lingls seirs its a great book and a really good read.
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Summary: Madeleine Misses
Review: While I thought the first three books in the Time quartet were excellent, this last installment let me down. It was corny and a little dumb, even though the plot was ok. Sandy and Dennis, the middle children in the Murry family, embark on their own adventure, which happens to be back in time, before Noah's flood. The inhabitants of the desert they land in are tiny, and nobody wears anything but a loincloth (not even the girls). Amidst trying to win the love of a woman, the twins must find a way home before the flood comes. To sum it up, I say skip this one and enjoy the Time trilogy.
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Summary: Boys Will Be Boys
Review: Sandy and Dennys Murry enter their parent's lab and play on their father's computer something that is strictly forbidden. But as the saying goes, "Boys will be boys!" It tessers them to the warm climate they requested. At first the boys believe that they have landed on a distant planet but soon discover they are still on Earth having traveled back to biblical times. They meet Japheth while he's divining for water in the desert. He takes them to his grandfather Lamech's oasis where their burnt skin is treated. Lamech's son is Noah of the ark and flood fame. People lived hundreds of years in this time but they misused their years and that's why El (God) seeks to destroy the Earth. He chooses to spare Noah and part of his family. God like creatures, the Nephilim and the Seraphim, roam the Earth. Both need a physical host and use animals which they shapeshift in and out of at will. The Nephilim are the equivalent of God's fallen angels and the Seraphim are his loyal angels whose chosen to loose some of their powers in order to protect man. Yalith, Noah's daughter, is on the verge of becoming a woman. The twins fall in love with her and she with them. Eblis is a nephilim and has offered to instruct Yalith in the ways of pleasure. She resists! Sandy and Dennys are the normal ones in the Murray family out-going jocks who fit-in everywhere. Now they discover that they have to find their own way out of this situation before they too drown in the flood. Many Waters is a wonderful ramp through Biblical and mythological lore combined with elements of fantasy and science fiction. Another top-notch Murry children tale from L'Engle!
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Summary: Fantastical
Review: When I started reading Many Waters I was in awe! The different characters and the settings jumped out at you, and I liked that. The characters seemed to interest me as well. The fact that the boys were able to help people so much and catch the errors of the families was amazing!That is why I have the book 5 stars.
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Summary: Creation Science?
Review: While not as good as A Wrinkle in Time, this is an interesting book that brings Biblical creatures to life in the fashion of Greek mythology, which I loved to read as a child. However, I wonder if this book is an example of creation science. Are the three foot tall humans portrayed as living before the Biblical flood supposed to explain the discovery of the similarly statured hominid fossils such as the "Lucy" skeleton found in Hadar, Ethiopia?
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