Re: The Time Travelers Wife I will be reading the book in the coming weeks. Honestly, is it more melodramatic than the Other Boleyn Girl (or as long)? Just curious.
Re: The Time Travelers Wife If it is more melodramatic than " The other Boleyn Girl" - hard to say imo as one person´s melodrama can be another person´s sincere and compassionate drama! And then there are imo good and bad melodrama!
I am not sure I would have read TOBG hadn´t it been made into an "Eric Bana film"! I was surprised how good it was - from a melodramatic point of view so to speak! Good melodrama isn´t easy to write imo! And I certainly thought TOBG to be rather good melodrama!
I read "The Time Travelers Wife" a couple of years ago and while (again) it is not entirely my cup of tea - I found the book very well written and interesting - I saw it as a lovestory not a sci-fi story! I read it as a kind of metaphor for how most "normal" marriages operate. It´s not totally unusual in a marriage that you sometimes feel like a timetraveler mentally - while you are 5 your spouse is 75 or he is a tiresome teenager of 15, while you are a mature 40, and so on AND ain´t often marriage a big tearjerking melodrama? I know my is So if you are allergic to melodramas I suppose - yes "TTTW" is a m-drama - BUT it is a good story and again - well written!
In short I suppose you must read it and find out if you think it is an overly melodramatic (melo)drama
Re: The Time Traveler´s Wife I don't know. I only mention melodrama in conjunction with the Other Boleyn Girl because a lot of people treat it like the Second Coming when, if you read Gregory's 2 other Henry VIII novels, several of us find it to be the weakest of the three and frankly, some of the dialogue is extremely stilted (which is why I find the complaints about the lack of subtlety in the script so laughable since the book itself was anything but). And that is why I bring this book up. I will be reading it regardless since my schooling is over for the summer and I am curious to see how it is. Thanks Clea.
By the way, if you want to read an excellent love story (with zero melodrama), I highly recommend The History of Love, which Alfonso Cuaron is apparently now turning into a film.
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AND ain´t often marriage a big tearjerking melodrama? I know my is 
I suppose - yes "TTTW" is a m-drama - BUT it is a good story and again - well written!
I suppose you must read it and find out if you think it is an overly melodramatic (melo)drama 
