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

[sarahandcocoa.livejournal.com]

I read a third of it then gave up. It's very boring. That's my honest opinion. I can see why others enjoy it and I would never say I hated it, but it didn't pique my interest.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

That's sort of how I feel. I've flipped through some of it, and it seems to be rather a lot of variations on "young Clare and Henry play checkers in her basement."