Plus I hate the cliché of someone who can't cook.

I loved the book! Its so interesting that you hated it. I did find the ending a lil depressing but I thought the themes of you know, could you wait for your whole life for that person? Could you deal with that? What kind of sacrifices would you make? were very interesting to think about in terms of my own limits.

But I did feel like she was getting kinda cheated throughout the whole book and at times I was like, Why is she waiting? Why doesn't she move on?

I heard the character of Ingrid isn't in the movie and I think that sucks because I thought she was an interesting suplement to the story line.

I'm so glad you posted this because I love when I love a book and someone I know hates it! It makes for much more interesting conversation!

that's funny I didn't care for the book either so I have no interest in seeing the movie when it's released here.

It's too bad they left Ingrid out. Her last scene was interesting. But I thought they could have fleshed out her character a lot more instead of making her just this one-dimensional crazy ex-girlfriend. I mean, how much more interesting if he was actually in a happy, normal relationship when he met Clare?

I think she was one of the more interesting characters of the book too TS at least this book isn't half as bad as Almost Moon by Alice Seabold. That was a huge disappointment

She was, or she could have been.

I also didn't like how she rambled on in some parts. The author, that is, not a character. Describing pool games shot by shot?

And a lot of the injuries and infertility stuff was just too gross for me.

what about when he was you know getting friendly with himself and the dad walked in?

Have you read the book Prep? I thought that was pretty good.

I have heard several people say the movie didn't do anything for them, but they loved the book. I really enjoyed the book... I'm going to wait until the DVD comes out to watch the movie.

I haven't, but I've seen it.

This was a rare foray into fiction for me. I tend to gravitate towards non-fiction. I think a big part of that is that so many novels have some element of a love story and they all just seem so inauthentic to me.

star, I think I might actually like the movie better than I liked this book. I will probably also wait for the DVD, but I don't know, it seemed like the premise had potential.

Just curious, what did you like about it? I'm feeling like I missed something.

It's been years since I read it, and to be honest I don't remember much of it, which is I guess a testament to it's "lasting nature" on me.

Foray into fiction? Go for the classics, those do not disappoint.

I just enjoyed the premise of time traveling. I read a lot of sci-fi books and the like and I just enjoyed how she wrote this. I can't say the ending blew me away like everyone else, but Niffenger's concept of time travel interested me. About half way into the book, I had to stop and try to make a time line of things in my head to see if that could really work. While I never figured out if it would, I do like books that make me stop and think.

I enjoyed the book, as well. I wasn't blown away, but I liked it.

I liked it because it made me think about how much (or how little) control we have over our own lives. Of course, we make our own choices, but I like books that make me question how much of what happens to us is a result of our choices and how much is a result of outside forces. Also, in their romance, it's interesting to think of who chose whom. Claire says that Henry gave her no choice because he made her fall in love with him when she was a little girl, but in a way, she made him fall in love with her as an adult.

I am trying to catch up on classics. I moved schools quite a bit, so I missed a lot of what was required reading for most, but then I ended up having to read Beowulf four times. I just started Pride and Prejudice.

The past year I've been reading classics during my ridiculously long commute. I'm reading Dead Souls by Gogol right now. It's very good and quite funny too.

Oops, meant to add that I looked at my Good Reads list and of the 17 books I've given five stars to, only five were fiction, and only one had a central love story. (Gone With the Wind, which I think I would enjoy less if I read it for the first time at this age instead of at 12.)

I'm not a huge love story fan either, really. In fact my favorites that I've read recently have been anything by Solzhenitsyn, and also epic novels like East of Eden (Steinbeck) or Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak). I love getting engrossed completely in another world.

I used to like stories with romance in them, whether it was the central plot or not, but the longer I'm in a real relationship, the more contrived fictional ones seem.

TS have you read Catcher in the Rye. I just started on it and I'm loving it so far. So it's a good classic if you that's what you're looking for.