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Title: An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0-440-20814-9 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An acceptable time
Comment: With the comtinuing series of a Wrinkle in time , the book An Acceptable time is the last book of the series. It is an amazing attribute to the series. This exciting science fiction book will please you all. The story's main character , Polly , is the type of person who is willing to risk her life for someone else: like when she orered her Indian friends to to take her back across the lake to save her friend. I liked the part when the two tribes made peace and the fighting stopped. If you liked Madeleine L' Engle's other books, you'll love An Acceptable Time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another wonderful L'Engle book
Comment: Once again, Madeleine L'Engle manages to take us through a fantastic, yet believable world. In this novel, Polly, Meg's daughter, is spending time with her grandparents in New England, when she is suddenly transported through time to the village of a 3000-year-old culture. Polly learns to live with these people and the difficulties they are experiencing, all the while trying to figure out how to get home to her own time.
This novel weaves interesting bits of ancient history into the story, and by doing so, makes the story feel real. While reading this book, I almost felt as if I were one of the characters, experiencing the story through their eyes. L'Engle makes Polly believable as an intelligent and sympathetic character.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Fifth is Vintage L'Engle
Comment: The thing that first pricked my interest to read this book was a negative review about it written, I think, in a library journal. We all know that writers in library journals have axes to grind since a good review guarantees that most libraries will stock the book. Look at the [books] in libraries these days (and pity kids looking for something to read) and you'll see my point. The fact that some knucklehead didn't like this book wouldn't normally have swayed me, but like many detractors she went too far, and described it in order to slam it. Just her description of the story, which she found "far-fetched," convinced me of two things: she had no imagination, and this sounded like a great book. No, I'm not being fair to the reviewer, who perhaps simply had no taste for L'Engle's brand of fantasy, but man, did she make me want to read this book.
Like many L'Engle books this one starts slow. Not put-the-book down slow but unpretentious, unassuming, making no attempt to hide the narration. No plunging into the plot, nothing blowing up, not at all Hollywood. Almost too obvious to keep reading. Almost. Almost too simple and kid-level. Almost. But a couple pages in and I couldn't put it down. An Acceptable Time ranks as one of my all-time great reading experiences, hot on the heels of L'Engle's amazing, awe-inspiring Many Waters. The sad thing is that Many Waters features as the fourth book of the Time Quartet, but no one knows that An Acceptable Time is the fifth. Take hope oh forlorn reader--you who have finished Many Waters and long for more L'Engle--another reading experience of great power and wonder yet awaits you.
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Title: Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440405483 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440401585 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1980 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Arm of the Starfish (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440901839 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440936853 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440487617 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1974 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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