XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: u502sou@bnhb484.de   
      
   ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.sf.misc.]   
   Don wrote:   
   > The True Melissa wrote:   
   >> Verily, in article <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me>, did   
   >> noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >>> > Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.   
   >>>   
   >>> Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance   
   >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.   
   >>   
   >> Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love   
   >> story, it's nice IMO.   
   >   
   > Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to   
   > twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old   
   > Clare.   
   >     This perverted plot premise requires omission of how twenty year old   
   > year old Clare initially stalks twenty-eight year Henry at Newberry   
   > Library when the Catholic soulmates first meet.   
      
   Niffenegger's book is an overly complicated version of a story   
   written - actually at the same time, so I think nobody can have   
   been influenced by the other - by a Spanish literature professor   
   who worked at that time at an Austrian university. Can't remember   
   the name of author or book. In short, there are only two encounters   
   with reverse individual timelines.   
      
   	-is   
      
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