This is based on my listening of the audiobook, which is about 12 hours long and has a male and female narrator for the first person narratives of both Claire and Henry.
Despite being from a rich family, I thought Claire as a character was still likeable. Have to give Audrey Niffenegger props for making Claire from a rich family so that she could afford to go to art school, be a paper sculptor, live on a trust fund and also off the lottery winnings that Henry got winning numbers for from the future, etc. It wouldn't really work if she was from a working class family and had to work one or more jobs to stay afloat. But Claire's narrative is sometimes a little long-winded, especially when she's banging on about how she would make her sculptures.
Henry's narrative was slightly more entertaining. But a librarian who disappears, comes back naked and the people he works with thinks he's on something? Sheesh. The thought of adult Henry meeting his future wife as a six-year old child is a little creepy, but that's just me.
In a way they're both lucky to have each other, but it's still sad how it turned out for them. Not terribly impressed with the ending.
Hate it when they break into German or French, but that's just because I don't speak it. The language is not G-rated, but don't let that stop you. Just don't let anyone who might be offended by the language read it.
I still can't quite understand the casting agent who thought that Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams could be Henry and Claire. Maybe if I had read it before the movie came out I would have a better idea, but I didn't and I don't.
While The Time Traveller's Wife as a debut novel is not THAT bad, but I wouldn't buy a copy for myself.
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