ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:I loved the first three (haven't read the 4th) and I saw that there is now a 5th

Many Waters isn't really connected to the original trilogy. I think they're being boxed together as more of a marketing tactic.

It was my understanding that Many Waters was time/dimensional travel with the twins. Going back to the Great Flood

It is, but stands alone as a story.

Anonymous wrote:You're not. I read the whole series and I didn't really care for any of them. Too weird. I loved other sci-fi and fantasy books, but not that one.

Try The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper instead.

This is me as well. Loved The Dark is Rising as a kid! And while I'm not a big science fiction fan, I love to read time travel novels as an adult, but never could get into A Wrinkle in Time.

I love this article on Madeleine L'Engle:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/10/dare-to-be-creative-madeleine-l-engle/

I loved all four of the books and look forward to reading them with my kids when they are older. We are also mainline protestants though. Maybe people didn't like the religious overtone to the books? Good vs Evil, The Universe's love vs. Hate. M. L'E. was a big time Episcopalian and it really came out in her books.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you reading it aloud? Not all great books are great read-alouds. I learned my lesson with "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"--should just have let my daughter read it and enjoy it on her own.

Wow. I am really interested to know why this book did not go over well out loud. This is one of the books I look or ward to reading to my kids.

We've done a lot of read alouds at our home - we each take a turn reading a few pages. My kids didn't care for Wrinkle in Time but I don't think it was because we read it aloud or that it was above their reading level or anything like that. My kids thought that the characters were annoying for some reason and they didn't get into the story. That was surprising to me because I would have thought that the time travel aspect would have been fun for them.

At any rate, I think it's a good read aloud book and a fun one to discuss (even if they don't like it).

Anonymous wrote:

ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:I loved the first three (haven't read the 4th) and I saw that there is now a 5th

Many Waters isn't really connected to the original trilogy. I think they're being boxed together as more of a marketing tactic.

It was my understanding that Many Waters was time/dimensional travel with the twins. Going back to the Great Flood