Time Travel discussion

Starting re-reading this one last week (got it last year). Just as good, or even better. The characters are believable, story is great. The closer I get to the end, slower I read it as don't want it to ever end!

Jeff wrote: "Starting re-reading this one last week (got it last year). Just as good, or even better. The characters are believable, story is great. The closer I get to the end, slower I read it as don't want i..."

That’s a good book!

Nancy wrote: "Jeff wrote: "Starting re-reading this one last week (got it last year). Just as good, or even better. The characters are believable, story is great. The closer I get to the end, slower I read it as..."

would love to see it as a movie, but love the flow of the book between past and present

seems work is underway to turn it into a movie

Jeff wrote: "seems work is underway to turn it into a movie"

I hope they don’t screw it up.

Can't see how it will be as good. A movie won't be able to cover 300 years. However really want to see how Addie looks (and remember it!)

Jeff wrote: "Can't see how it will be as good. A movie won't be able to cover 300 years. However really want to see how Addie looks (and remember it!)"

This is true.

wonder who would play Addie in a movie?

Jeff wrote: "Can't see how it will be as good. A movie won't be able to cover 300 years. However really want to see how Addie looks (and remember it!)"

The book didn't really cover 300 years either, frankly. There was a lot of her early life and a lot of present day, but not much in between.

not accurate, first 100 years they visit a couple times every few decades and go into 1700s and 1800s, early 1900s, 1960s and 70s. Some are entire chapters, some brief mentions

Right, and it's the brief mentions which make me say it doesn't really cover the whole 300 years. Cameos in books could translate reasonably well to cameos on screen, I would think.

hardly brief mentions, chapters devoted to the following years. By stretching it out, Addie gradually learns more about Luc
1698
1703
1707
1714
1715
1716
1719
1720
1724
1751
1764
1778
1789
1806
1827
1854
1872
1899
1914
1928
1944
1952
1970
1984
2013
2014
2015
2016

Alright, let me clarify. It's been a while since I read it. If I recall correctly, all those chapters (which are generally quite short) don't depend very much on the setting. They might have a couple paragraphs of description but the focus is more on the interactions between Addie and Luc. Thus the setting would not be so important in a movie, either, just a sense of time passing, which could be done any number of ways.

suggest a re-read...good part of 1700s spent in France