I read something not web-published...
Oct. 8th, 2006 12:21 amI've just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and enjoyed it quite a lot. It was closer to pure romance than I normally read in original fiction (so much of the fanfic I read is romance that I usually look for other stuff when I do read something else). There isn't happening much besides the love story between Clare and Henry, but Henry's involuntary time travel episodes throw in enough twists to make it interesting. The way time travel was handled in the story also was cool and unusual: I don't think I've seen involuntary time travel as a result of a genetic disorder before. And I was pleasantly surprised that the story managed to be not confusing, which I had expected with fragmented nature of their timelines.
I was thrown a bit though by some of the German, in particular the "Und so wiete." occurring several times which I guess was supposed to be "Und so weiter." but I couldn't figure out whether that was intentional and supposed to signify something (like a non-standard dialect or whatever) or just a persistent spelling error. There was at least one other place where I was thrown out by misspelled German, but that error was at least not repeated, so I figured it was just a typo. Also I didn't get why at one point Clare's friend, who's supposedly knowledgeable about computers, seemed to imply that she wrote viruses in HTML.
I was thrown a bit though by some of the German, in particular the "Und so wiete." occurring several times which I guess was supposed to be "Und so weiter." but I couldn't figure out whether that was intentional and supposed to signify something (like a non-standard dialect or whatever) or just a persistent spelling error. There was at least one other place where I was thrown out by misspelled German, but that error was at least not repeated, so I figured it was just a typo. Also I didn't get why at one point Clare's friend, who's supposedly knowledgeable about computers, seemed to imply that she wrote viruses in HTML.