Before reading this book, I got a lot of mixed reviews. The movie I heard was horrible. Several people told me that they got really confused, or they drug through the whole book slowly. Well it did take me a while to read, but I haven't been making myself read lately. I can see when people said that they got really confused. The book is written by which the particular event happen on different dates. If you look at the book as a whole, it is mostly going through Clare's (The main character's main squeeze) life chronologically. Henry might go back and forth through time, but everything is playing out correctly as Clare grows up. If you do end up reading this book, don't think about the dates too much. I really did not have trouble with this book at all.
It was a cute love story. Niffenegger does a good job describing every little detail that a character is doing/experiencing. Sometimes almost too detailed. For example, you would usually read "Clare goes into the kitchen and comes back with a glass of milk" Niffenegger would write "Clare walks slowly into the kitchen by pushing the door open. She walks over to the counter and grabs a glass from the right cabinet beside the sink. She then opens the refrigerator, takes out the milk carton and opens the carton. She pours the milk carefully into the glass. Clare walks back out of the kitchen into the living room" No wonder this book is over 500 pages long.
I knew for a fact that this would be a sad story, but it didn't turn out how I thought it was, and it was only bittersweet, in my opinion. Some things in the book weren't real even for this particular story (and she did put in a small part of 9/11/01) , but over all I enjoyed myself. 3.5 stars
