The Time Traveler’s Wife
This is one of the best books I have read lately and now it is a movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana(?). I have no idea if it will be a good movie, but I’m looking forward to finding out. In the meantime, I recommend the book highly.
I concur – a great book, albeit a little weepy.
Comment by Supergenius — June 22, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
Warning to unsuspecting males out there:
Chick book!
Comment by BTD Greg — June 22, 2009 @ 11:17 pm
No way Greg! It’s an everyone book and a really good one at that. Is it a bit sentimental? Sure. It’s a really great story more then anything. I think maybe if you’re married you’ll apperiate it more but it’s not nessecary. As for the movie, I am hopeful but many a great book has been ruined by Hollywod.
Comment by Rose Tyler — June 22, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
It was a chick book. But as they go, it was a good one.
Comment by Supergenius — June 23, 2009 @ 12:04 am
Good books and good movies defy easy categorization. This is one of those books. Is it chick lit? Sci fi? I don’t know. It was just good.
Comment by MCQ — June 23, 2009 @ 12:53 am
If you have ever read much chic lit you know this is not chic lit. It’s sci-fi with a romantic albeit tragic twist. That’s not so unheard of. Doctor Who has romance, Battlestar had it’s moments.
Comment by Rose Tyler — June 23, 2009 @ 1:24 am
I really enjoyed the book for what little that is worth. Now it is being made into a movie I can probably talk the wife into reading it.
Comment by TStevens — June 25, 2009 @ 7:33 pm
I loved the book, not sure about the casting for the film though. I’ll reserve judgment until I see it though.
Comment by Rebecca — June 26, 2009 @ 4:07 am
I agree about the casting. Rachel McAdams seems right on, but Eric Bana seems nuts.
Comment by MCQ — June 26, 2009 @ 9:03 am
#9 – I completely agree. Bana is nothing like how I imagined!
Comment by Rebecca — June 26, 2009 @ 9:45 am
I think Rachel McAdams makes a really good Claire but Eric Bana is not who I pictured at all. Ewen McGregor would have been my pick.
Comment by Rose Tyler — June 26, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Rose, not to get all nationalistic on you, but Henry is supposed to be a punk rock fan from Chicago. Can’t we get an American actor to play him?
It’s not an easy role, because it requires playing different ages from childhood through age 43, so you’re going to have to get a child actor who looks like the adult Henry, and then you need someone who can convincingly play ages from 20s through 40s. He’s supposed to be good looking, have dark hair and be thin but athletic (an obsessively good runner who can also beat people up when called upon to do so). The only person that immediately leaps to mind is Brad Pitt, but he’s the wrong coloring.
Comment by MCQ — June 26, 2009 @ 11:58 am
Ok how about Johny Depp? Dark and brooding? Check. Totally punk rock? Check. Handsome? Um check.
Comment by Rose Tyler — June 26, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
Yeah, I could see Johnny Depp in this role.
Comment by MCQ — June 26, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
My greatest fear is that they will cut out all the dark, violent underbelly of the book and make the movie just another romance. That would be a serious injustice to the book.
Comment by MCQ — June 26, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
I agree. The book was much more then a romance. Thar’s why the choice of Eric Bana worried me, I don’t want the character to lose that edge he had in the book.
Comment by Rose Tyler — June 26, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
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