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Summary: My favorite book!
Review: I absolutely adore this book! Having first read it at age 10, I have re-read it countless times since. L'Engle provides a wonderful story, with loveable and sympathetic characters. The book is amazingly detailed, yet is an easy and flowing read. As a teenager, I was able to relate to Meg's sense of not fitting in with the rest of her classmates. Her character sums up the awkwardness that being an adolescent brings. However, by the end of the book, Meg is greatly changed by her adventures, and is clearly more comfortable with herself. This book has many important themes, such as love, acceptance, and the triumph of good over evil. The story is both touching and interesting, especially good for those who enjoy science fiction (though others will like it as well!).
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Summary: powerful fantasy fiction
Review: I may be in college, however I sure do enjoy brushing up on the treasures of middle school fiction. And of all those cool books (Holes, Harry Potter, Redwall, Earthsea, etc.), this is definitely one of the best. It presents the interesting concept that the Earth is "shadowed", and that is why our world is so unjust, yet we have many bright people who fight the injustice. In other words, the Earth is in between Camazotz (read the book to see what I'm talking about), and Aunt Beast's planet, the former being a "dark" planet, and the other a "light" planet. The characters are very unique and captivating. And the way Ms Lengle fuses science and spirituality is really uncanny. I would recommend this for any fan of the fantasy/scifi genre, but even those not into said category may like this one. Best of all, there are four books following!
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Summary: Read This Book!
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is a great book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I highly highly HIGHLY reccomend this book. If you like fantasy or Science fiction bboks then yo should like A Wrinkle in Time. It is a very very good book. Like Harry Potter but with more spark. Do yourself ome good and read A Wrinkle n Time.
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Summary: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Review: This book features Meg Murray, a twelve year-old girl who feels frustratingly different from everyone else. She is called a moron at school and is constantly getting in trouble and sent to Mr. Jenkins' office. To make matters worse, her father has been missing for a long while and people are talking. This infuriates Meg, but she feels helpless to do anything about it. She wishes she were more like her younger twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, who fit in so well with everyone else, and she cannot comprehend how her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, can remain indifferent to what everyone else thinks. Her mother, too, remains so calm and composed in the face of their troubles, but try as she might, Meg cannot help boiling over with anger and sadness. Things seem to get a bit better when Meg finds a precious friend in Calvin, who makes her feel worthy, special, and needed. Yet Meg still feels that she will never be anything but a moron and that nothing will be right until her father returns.
When Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which enter the Murray's life, Meg begins the journey of a lifetime, not just of the body, but of the mind and spirit as well. Faced with the formidable task of saving her father and the universe from an evil force, Meg must confront many new and sometimes uncomfortable ideas. Through her encounters with other planets and creatures, Meg discovers that her human perspective and understanding are just one among many, and perhaps quite limited in comparison. She also realizes from her experiences on the dark planet Camazotz that being like everyone else is not necessarily a good thing, and that being alike and being equal are two very different things indeed. Finally, Meg learns that her father is not able to solve every problem and protect her from every danger, and that she must rely on her own strength as well. But what strength could she possibly possess that could overcome an evil so large as IT?
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time review
Review: A Wrinkle in Time is about a girl named Meg Murray and her brother Charles Wallace. Their parents are both scintist. Her father is a physist and goes off to work for the government. One day while Meg and Charles Wallace were at home with their mother, they visit a haunted house and get special powers. They are visited by Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Who who take them off to Camazotz to see there father. When they finally arrive in camazotz , Meg can see her father but he can't see her. So she loned him the glasses Mrs. Who gave her so he could see her. She talks to her father and they visit for a while. Charles Wallace got swallowed up by IT. IT controls his life. IT also had frozen Meg too. Meg came out of it and they saved Charles Wallace and they all went back home together. This is a great story for adolscents because it teaches them to care about others and it makes them realize how much they miss someone when they are gone.
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Summary: Boring or Breath Taking
Review: A Wrinkle in Time was a good book although I have read much better. The first hundred pages or so are rather boring but after that it starts to hook you. I do think that Madeleine L'Engle could have let us know the characters more, she just basicly says in the book that certain people are good and others are bad. In books I enjoy having the characters do things and say things and then with that you can judge whether you like them or not.
Another thing I wish she put in the book were humorous characters. A character can be humorous but also quite important. One other thing that bugged me and all of my other friends reading it was Charles Wallace. "Let's be exclusive. That's my new word for the day. Impressive isn't it?" Yes that was a direct quote from the book. This was said by Charles Wallace who is four years old and a supposed-to-be genious.
I hope I didn't make it sound like the whole book was bad and boring but some is and if I were to tell you of the good parts it would ruin the book. I'll give you one clue as to where it gets good. It is when they start talking about IT. So those that read this book I hope you enjoy!
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Summary: from a 14 yr old girl
Review: Dear Who-ever this may be helpful
Not less than 10 minutes ago did I finish reading this great book. I did not even come online to write a review but to find out about the books that follow after this one. After reading some other peoples reviews i found it quite neccesary to state my opinion. I loved this book. My close friends and family know that I love plenty of books and maybe a have over a hundred favorites, but this book skyrocket-ed to the top of my list
-still under Harry Potter, but what can you say, I'm a fanatic-.
The book was superb for all ages. One follows Meg Murry, a "delinquent" teen with galsses and braces and a horrible plain face, through an epic quest for her father as she journeys through space and herself to find hidden qualities she did not know was there. Along for the ride is Charles Wallace her amazing young 5 year old brother who the town picks on as being sort of slow, to find out that this kid is absolutely great -I won't say why- And i won't forget Calvin, who i absolutely feel heads over heels for as he became closer and cloaser to insecure Meg. This book is great, the charecters are great, and I can go on forever but its dinner time. Bye now
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Summary: My new favorite book!!
Review: When I got done reading this book, the only thing I thought was WOW!! On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, I would give this book a 15. The reason I gave this book 5 stars is because it has amazing detail, suspense, action, fantasy, all the things I love in a book. Some of my friends that read this book didn't like it. Some said it was a little boring at the beginning, or they didn't understand it, but I can't see why!! It was a little hard to understand at first, but once you get into it, you can't put it down!! I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes fantasy or science fiction.
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Summary: SO boring!!!
Review: This book is not worth reading @ all! I got this thinking it would be a really good book, since alot of the people I knew had read it & said it was okay. I got a couple pages into this & it didn't make any sense even then. I was bored out of my mind, but I just kept reading. Slowly, of course. I wanted to finish, but about 1/3 through it, I couldn't take it any more. It was getting to boring, WAY to boring. Don't read this book. Read some thing else, any thing but this.
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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time Review
Review: A Wrinkle in Time
By: Madeline L'Engle
Reviewed by: L.Kamiyama
P.1 The book A Wrinkle in Time is a very good book. In the beginning of the book, a girl name Meg lives with her brother, Charles Wallace, her mother, and two younger twins. Meg's father has mysteriously disappeared when he was experimenting with time travel. Meg's younger brother, Charles Wallace, is five years old. One day, Charles meets an old lady named Mrs. Whasit and her friends, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. They invite him and Meg to come over to their house one day. When they went to their house the next day, they met a boy from school named Calvin. After they met Calvin, all three of them entered the house. When they meet Mrs. Whasit and her friends, they find out that are trying to help Meg and Charles save their father. Next, Meg, Charles, and Calvin are taken on the ride of their lives when they magically travel through space with Mrs. Whasit, Who, and Which. After they travel through space, they land on a mysterious planet called Uriel. When they are there, they discover that Mrs. Whasit and her friends are not really who they think they are. Suddenly, Mrs. Whasit changes from an old lady, to a beautiful winged creature. After they discover their true identities, they then travel to an evil planet where Meg and Charles' father is being held as a prisoner. Meg, Charles, and Calvin battle through the planet to rescue their father and return home safely. In the end, Meg's family is reunited with their father.
One reason why I liked this book was because of all the different settings and locations in the story. The first location was on Earth where Meg first met Mrs. Whasit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. Then there was the planet Uriel where they found out their true identities, the two-dimensional planet, Orion's Belt where they met the Happy Medium, Camatoz where they rescued their father from, and the gray planet with the furry creatures. My favorite planet was the two-dimensional planet. In the book, it says, "Oh, no! We can't stop here! This is a two-dimensional planet and the children can't manage here!"
The second reason why I liked this book was because of the adventure that the characters were in. They had to travel through space, survive on new planets, and battle enemies that they have never new or saw before. When they landed on Camatoz, everybody there looked human, but there was something about them that was different from people on Earth. They were all doing the same thing at the same time. In the book, it says, "Look!" Charles Wallace said suddenly. "They're skipping and bouncing in rhythm! Everyone's doing it at exactly the same moment." It turns out that all the people are being mind controlled by a thing called IT. Meg must battle IT to rescue her father.
My favorite part of the book was when Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace were talking to the man with red eyes. I liked this part because it was suspenseful and a little scary. In this part, they meet a man with red eyes that talks to them and tries to take control of their minds. Thy try hard to protect their minds, but Charles gets hypnotized. I think this is a good book and I would recommend this to other readers.
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