XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.misc   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 1/02/26 05:31, 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.   
      
   It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?   
      
   >     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.   
   >   
   >     "Thou doth Protestant too much, methinks."   
      
   My protest is principally with genre impersonation.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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