I think this may be a disagreement on the scale of the one we had re: Gilmore Girls. Sounds like you like Clare about as much as I liked Rory and that's okay.
This is one of my favorite books of ALL TIME EVER. I tried to write a response and I realized that I was going to say something that was going to be mean or mean spirited and not worth it, all over a book. So I erased and started over. And then I erased it again.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree and not really talk about it because I think I'll say something stupid. However, I did have to comment on one part of your review.
Your reaction to Clare and her pregnancies bugs me. Talk to someone who has had a miscarriage or two or five and who desperately wants a baby with *her* eyes and *his* nose and has dreamed about it for years and IT JUST ISN'T HAPPENING and *then* tell me that Clare is being ridiculous.
She knows she won't get to keep him forever. That Henry has a short amount of time to be with her and so much of that time he's traveling. She wants something of his to hold on to and I GET THAT. I totally understand her need to create something tangible with him that's a part of him.
Are you upset because someone believes that she isn't complete without a baby? That she doesn't think she's a complete person until she procreates?
I get it. Not everyone feels the need to have kids and people shouldn't feel that they have to have children to be a whole person. HOWEVER, her baby need isn't really about the baby as much as it's about holding on to what she's losing.
Anyway. I'm going to let this one go. To each her own and all that.
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Date: 2009-04-01 06:32 am (UTC)This is one of my favorite books of ALL TIME EVER. I tried to write a response and I realized that I was going to say something that was going to be mean or mean spirited and not worth it, all over a book. So I erased and started over. And then I erased it again.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree and not really talk about it because I think I'll say something stupid. However, I did have to comment on one part of your review.
Your reaction to Clare and her pregnancies bugs me. Talk to someone who has had a miscarriage or two or five and who desperately wants a baby with *her* eyes and *his* nose and has dreamed about it for years and IT JUST ISN'T HAPPENING and *then* tell me that Clare is being ridiculous.
She knows she won't get to keep him forever. That Henry has a short amount of time to be with her and so much of that time he's traveling. She wants something of his to hold on to and I GET THAT. I totally understand her need to create something tangible with him that's a part of him.
Are you upset because someone believes that she isn't complete without a baby? That she doesn't think she's a complete person until she procreates?
I get it. Not everyone feels the need to have kids and people shouldn't feel that they have to have children to be a whole person. HOWEVER, her baby need isn't really about the baby as much as it's about holding on to what she's losing.
Anyway. I'm going to let this one go. To each her own and all that.