Talk:The Time Traveler's Wife

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[edit] GeneticDisorders really a good category

Is GeneticDisorders really a good category for this article? Seems a little weird. Sure, one of the main characters has a fictional genetic disorder (okay, so maybe two of the main characters), but this is about the book, and the disorder is FICTIONAL. Manuzhai 18:41, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clare a Mary Sue?

I took out the comment about Clare being a "classic Mary Sue". She doesn't have any unusual skills, apart from her artistic abilities. And as for her "notable flawlessness", she seems to have plenty of flaws e.g. her singlemindness in trying for a baby nearly ruins her marriage. In any case, the Mary Sue comment at the moment is only unreferenced opinion. If it can be backed up with a published reference, feel free to include it.

I removed the following sentence from the introduction: "A good deal of material is also spent on their sex life". The sexual content didn't seem excessive to me, considering it was a love story and compared with other books of the same genre.

I also removed the sentence: "Clare Abshire is a perfectly normal woman in most respects" since her "normality" could be seen as POV (not many women are from wealthy families or become artists).

Fionah 08:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'll second all the removed material. (Let's face it, it's the talk pages on Wikipedia that contain all the useful material. The actual articles are bloody useless, because people keep taking out all the interesting stuff.) She IS a Mary Sue, there's a hell of a lot of crud about their sex life... and she's pretty dull, frankly. - 88.109.63.214 (talk) 14:13, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error in the text

On Page 150, he remarks that the tide is out, referring to lake Michigan. The tides for Lake Michigan are no more than 1.5 inches, so this is not possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.156.4 (talk) 16:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)