ladymercury_10 | Apparently I've become a lazy reader (Reply)

So I borrowed The Time Traveler's Wife from the library, and all it's done is sit on my parents' coffee table. I got about a chapter in and gave up. I just can't muster up the interest. Which feels odd to me, since there are so many reasons that I should love it. It has time travel, the fantasy/science fiction element, lovely local details (I'm from Chicago), etc. It comes to me highly recommended by one of my favorite teachers ever. And it's supposed to be well-written; literary fiction and whatnot. But I just can't get into it. I wonder if it's just long, and that puts me off, or if it has too much sex for my taste, or if I've read one too many bad reviews.

Anyone a TTTW fan or hater and want to tell me why I should/shouldn't just get on with it?