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Can you believe that this isn't a movie yet?
In the world of bad sci-fi films (such as "Star Wars" The Phantom Menace", a poor excuse for a child's movie - or even an adult fan's movie, at that), it's simply astounding that no one has made this amazing book into the wonderful movie that it wants to be. Teenage romance, deep family and social dynamics, interesting characters, space travel, alien witches who can morph into beautiful creatures with crystal wings, the basic - and vital - interaction between good and evil, and even a brain on a pedestal as the "Bad Guy" - this book has EVERY element of a major box-office success. Combine these facts with the supreme brand recognition and fond memories of my generation (I'm 36, read this in grade school, and continually reread it into adulthood), and the fact that L'Engle even wrote sequels, and you have to wonder what the Hollywood set is thinking in ignoring this classic literary work.

If you have children, get this book for them. No, there are no supporting toy lines to buy, no merchandising nightmares to contend with, no Taco Bell "Camazotz" cups - just a great, compelling story. If you are grown up, get this book and remind yourself that good science fiction requires nothing more than a good idea and an expressive writer - and nothing less, either.

Mr. Lucas and Mr. Spielberg, if you REALLY want to make a good _children's_ movie (clearly, neither "Star Wars" or "Hook" accomplish this with any degree of success), then wake up and read "A Wrinkle in Time". Your next box office smash is waiting for you, no dinosaurs, gratuitous effects or lasers required!

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Stays Great with Age
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a wonderful book for teen-agers, and as I just happily discovered, for adults, too. I had memorized when young the adventures of Meg Murry, her precocious brother Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe, and rediscovering them 20 years later is even more wonderful than the first time around.

I always loved this book and its sequels. In "Wrinkle," which won a Newberry Award, Meg Murry, a misfit at school, finds that her little brother, Charles Wallace, has befriended three very strange women who have begun living in an abandoned shed near their property. Meg is not a happy girl. She's not popular at school, and doesn't do well in her classes. Her mother, a beautiful scientist, tries to hide her loneliness because her husband, the father of Meg, Charles Wallace and the twins, Sandy and Dennys, has disappeared and hasn't been heard from in quite some time. It all seems to have something to do with a "tesseract," which one of the strange ladies tells Mrs. Murry "does exist."

Meg, Calvin and Charles, with the help of the three women have adventures in the quest of, yes, saving Dr. Murry. The tesseract (or a wrinkle in time and/or space) is a device of the story, but not its point. The novel, decidedly Christian, and perhaps a reaction to the Cold War during which it was written in 1962, is timeless and applicable to any religion or philosophy based on love and respect. The novel hinges on such love in a grand way, but it also communicates it in a thousand small ways throughout.

Meg is a heroine to whom any junior high girl could relate very well; the love she feels at home, as well as from the crazy women and the friendship that grows between her and Calvin was an affirmation to me when I was "her age." I still love it.

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Really good!!
I read this a long time ago, but it's still really good! Read it! Anyway, that's not my real point.

Would all those people who are complaining about the "lack of scientific substance" stop?!?!?! This isn't supposed to be a scientific journal! It's a NOVEL! What do novels do? Tell stories! NOT give scientific facts.

So, with that aside, I recommend this book to everyone.

Have fun reading!