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An Acceptable Time Review

Poly is a very interesting character but this book is the first one about her that really makes me think of her as a Murray. Zachary is a fool but it is always interesting to see how he appears in so many stores. Plus this story takes another good stab at explaining time travel.

An Acceptable Time Feature

ISBN13: 9780312368623
Condition: New
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An Acceptable Time Overview

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."

A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

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Customer Reviews

Madeleine Vath's Review of "An Acceptable Time" by Madeleine L'Engle - Lady Bluestocking - South Carolina Lowcountry
I think it was a good idea for Madeleine L'Engle to write this last book, "An Acceptable Time", to conclude the Time series. In the book series' that I have read where I feel as if I have grown up alongside the main characters, the author does not usually devote an entire book about the original main characters' kids (if they have any) after the main characters have grown up and I, as a reader, would sometimes like to know how the main characters kids turn out. I feel like that is exactly what L'Engle did in "An Acceptable Time." Now that I have read the book, I know that Polly is almost exactly like her mother and has the brains of both her parents and her grandparents. I think that that is the thing I liked most about this book. The thing I liked the least as a thirteen-year-old is that, as I was reading the first four books they taught me a thing or two about science, but when I read "An Acceptable Time", I could hardly understand any of the science and mathematical terms and stuff. The only stuff I could really grasp was the time thresholds and I only understood that because it was made up! I would have waited a few years to read the whole series if they were all that difficult to read, but it was only that book that was hard for me to grasp.

A Drawn-out Tale that Ignores the Prior Books - C. Stephans -
For the fifth book in the Wrinkle of Time Series, An Acceptable Time was a huge disappointment. I actually considered not finishing it and was relieved when I did. The story uses several of the same plot techniques from the previous books; however, the characters seem to have no reference of the events of previous books. The story was boring and held little action for the amount of words used.

The main character is Polly O'Keefe, daughter of Margaret Murry. She spends the summer at the Murry's and goes through a time portal to 3,000 years earlier. As the story develops and she has conversations with the Drs. Murry, they act like they have never had any of their adventures or that the twins never went back to Noah's time. They are uncharacteristically scared for Polly and attempt to keep her from the adventure.

When she travels backwards, along with a friend Zachary and a retired Bishop, she is taken for a goddess. The religious references that follow, including from the Bishop, seem to be almost entirely pagan rather than Christian. The Druid spirituality/religion seems to be exalted in this book as the pure essence of a creature-creator relationship. Mother Earth is referenced as a reality and the theme of human sacrifice is present throughout the story as a method for appeasing Mother Earth.

It is a strange sort of story, even without the time travel. Unfortunately, there is not enough story or character development. It seems like anything interesting had already been done in previous books. I hate to say it but this is one that I could have lived without, despite my interest in the prior books of the series.

Garbled metadata and "dreaded topaz" format - Michael J. Ehling - Philadelphia, PA
The metadata on this file is garbled so that the author's name is sorted by first name rather than last, causing mis-alphabetization on the Kindle home screen on an author sort. When I attempted to correct this error with mobi2mobi, I then discovered that this file is .AZW1 (the "dreaded topaz" format). Very unprofessional presentation by a major publisher.

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