A Wrinkle in Time

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

A Wrinkle in Time

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

I thought she had died like a decade or two ago... How many "generations" exactly have there been since the 1960's? Kind of a misleading honorific... for those of us born in the 60's, if we include our parents and kids in the count, that makes... hmm... 3 generations?

Liked the book when I was a kid, though.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Hmm... I read that book to my two oldest ones. Quite a lady.

Hoss Cartwright · Senior Member

Cool book. The two sequels were kind of lame, though.

I swear, when I was a kid (in third grade), and our teacher read it to us, they referred to their daughter, in one instance, as "Megaton," that being her real name, and "Meg" a nickname.

When I read it again later (in college), the "Megaton" was gone. I promise I heard that, because I thought it sounded like a cool scientific word; and then it weirded me out when I looked it up in a dictionary (yes, I was, and am, a nerd).

-- Edited by Hoss Cartwright at 10:08, 2007-09-08

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Based on Cat's Wikipedia link, I count seven "pop culture" generations that have been elementary school age since 1963, when A Wrinkle In Time was published. I read these books as a child, and my children have read them. So, it is true that her books have been enjoyed generations of schoolchildren, at least in my family.

arbilad · Head Chef

I'm weird in that I disliked the first book, and purely hated the sequel. I hated it so much that I didn't get much past the first chapter. And I usually finish books even if I dislike them.
If my sons ever want to read those books, I won't stop them. But neither will I suggest them.
Still, I mean to say nothing disrespectful about the author. She was quite an accomplished lady.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Do you remember why you disliked them, arbilad?

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

My impression of the book as I got older was that it was kind of a combination of sci-fi (okay, so I can blame like my second or third grade teacher who read it to us as a class for my interest in sci-fi novels... that and re-runs of Star Trek the original series...

) and then a kiddie version of George Orwell's vision in 1984.

You know the thing that always stuck out in my mind as scarey was the description of the neighborhood the kids went to on that alien planet in search of the dad... the houses all looked the same, the lawns and streets were all immaculate, nothing was out of place, and the routine of the mothers coming out all at the same time to call their children in... scared the bejeebees out of me as a kid for some reason.

Now, as an adult, everytime I drive through one of those upscale housing developments of mcmansions that all just a variation of the same theme and design and colors where the subdivision doesn't allow personal taste in landscaping or vegetable gardens or fences and where you rarely see children out playing in yards... I think, Wrinkle In Time alien world neighborhood...