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 Elia Barcelo's   
   "El secreto del orfebre" (The Secret of the Goldsmith. I don't know   
   whethere there's a translation to English; there is one to German.)   
      
   Barcelo lets her protagonists meet exactly hm... three times? But   
   the first two times with reverse individual timelines, so that the   
   one can't remember the other.   
      
   I liked it better than Niffenegger's work.   
      
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