What I’m Reading Now, Part 2

I’m about half-way done dragging myself through A Wrinkle in Time. I’m not really enjoying it.

First of all, it’s aimed at teenagers, but that doesn’t mean it has to be juvenile. I mean really, the three mysterious beings are called Mrs. Whosit, Mrs. What and Mrs. Which. The evil being is a shadow called The Black Thing (also called IT). Secondly, it’s fantasy, which I only like if it’s funny, like the Xanth series, or extremely well-done, like the Lord of the Rings movies. I didn’t even like the LOTR novels (I know, that’s almost sacrilegious.)

I can see why the producers place a copy of a Wrinkle in Time on the island in Lost. It attempts to combine science (the tessaract, a sort of worm-hole) with magic. I’m still not sure if there are magical elements in Lost or not, but it certainly seems so at times. The show explicitly delineates a distinction between science and faith. Furthermore, A Wrinkle in Time deals with time travel, as the title suggests. And it has a number of religious allegorical references, as does Lost.

I can’t really see Sawyer liking it at all. I suppose if it were the only book on the island…