Apparently I've become a lazy reader

[ladymercury_10]

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? 

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I adore TTTW. It's one of the very few love stories that I have read and enjoyed--and it masquerades as a mainstream novel but is really about the resilience of love between two human beings, about fate and free will and loss and faithfulness.

Mind you, I am a total sucker for well-written fiction with an unusual structure, and TTTW rocks the non-linear format exceedingly well. There is a lot of (fairly graphic) sex, more than in any other book I've read all the way through, but for some reason it didn't bother me in this book the way it can in some others.

I think you should keep reading it. :)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

It sounds so much like something I'd like...maybe it's worth another shot?

Thanks for the input. :)

Ooh! I bought Walking on Water! I haven't gotten around to finishing it--library books that I have to have back soon sort of superseded it, but I really like it so far.