Title: I Wanted to Like It...
Review: I really wanted to like this book. A friend lent it to me, so I could read it before seeing the movie with her. I agree that it's an interesting premise. I enjoyed some of the beginning, but, as some reviewers have said, it lost me towards the middle. The reason may be that once you figure out what's going to happen, the books slogs towards the inevitable. The worldview of this book is that you can't change what's going to happen. No matter what you know beforehand, or what actions you take, our fate is sealed and we are merely puppets acting out a play that's already been written. No one in this story had a choice in what would happen to them. That does not make for interesting fiction, or a vibrant life. I want to think that the decisions I make have consequences, that what I do has meaning. I felt Henry and Clare were just going through the motions, and I didn't care what happened to them and no interest in seeing the movie.
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