A Wrinkle In Time, 50 years

[patgolfneb]

I saw in USA. Today that A Wrinkle In Time was published 50 years ago and is 90th on the list of most challenged books. I bet more kids learned about mobius strips and added tesseract to their vocabulary than in science classes.

[orb9220]

Geeze So long ago read that like 1966? was like 11 then. Was one of my first mind-bending Scifi books for a young whipersnapper.

The man with the Red Eyes and planet being contolled by the IT was such fun.

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[taltosPT]

I remember when this book came out. Makes me feel even older than usual.

[MacMcK1957]

This was a book that truly blew my 12-year-old mind when I read it.  Absolutely fantastic.

[infael]

I'm that old? I mean, it's that old?

Nonetheless twas a pretty good book. The following 2 just weren't as good.

[paulgoatallen]

I wonder how I would feel about this book if I read it today. The last time I read it was almost 30 years ago....

[MacMcK1957]

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paulgoatallen wrote:

I wonder how I would feel about this book if I read it today. The last time I read it was almost 30 years ago....

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I guess another there's another to-do item I need to add to my re-read list.  Just finished Treasure Island.  As good as I remembered it.

[Omnigeek]

It just doesn't seem like it could be that old ... but then again, neither do I!

I'm in the midst of rereading Heinlein but will have to put that on the reread list right after the Foundation series.

[orb9220]

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Omnigeek wrote:

It just doesn't seem like it could be that old ... but then again, neither do I!

I'm in the midst of rereading Heinlein but will have to put that on the reread list right after the Foundation series.

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Yep just finished re-reading Foundation series. And enjoyed even more than when I was a yung'in whipsnapper!

Switched over to fantasy as like to switch back and forth and now reading Goodkinds "Sword of Truth" series. And Heinlein on the todo list also.

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[Ya_Ya]

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paulgoatallen wrote:

I wonder how I would feel about this book if I read it today. The last time I read it was almost 30 years ago....

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It's just as magical as an oldie as it was as a young'un.  

I still love this book - as a matter of fact, I answered this about A Wrinkle in Time in another thread about books you loved but whose film adaption disappointed - or stronger! - you:  

Oy.  I've loved this book all my life; read it for the first time as a little girl.  Have read it several times as an adult.  I laugh, I cry, I fall in love with the characters, my heart hurts for the little girl without her father (my father died when I was 16, so I identify with how she might feel) I grin like the Cheshire Cat when Meg saves the day.  

I was so excited to see the (recent) film available on Netflix.  Then I watched it.

It was awful.  Rather than being ethereal beings, Mrs Who, Mrs. Witch and Mrs. Whatsit are goofy carictures of children's imaginary friends.  The Happy Medium was a drag queen's interpretation of a Tibetan Monk.  The novel has existential and religious themes; the film had neither.

Not only was it a bad adaptation of the book, it was just a bad film.