Many waters

by Madeleine L'Engle

357 pages

English language

Published April 3, 1986 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

ISBN:: 978-0-312-36857-9

(30 reviews)

The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

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fjordic reviewed Many waters by Madeleine L'Engle

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4 stars

Slow start, no character development, but it was entertaining.

nekokat reviewed Many waters by Madeleine L'Engle

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2 stars

Wow I was harsh on this book ten years ago, but it kinda deserved it. Sandys and Dennys aren't well-developed characters and don't make good protagonists (honestly they barely added anything to the previous books, and I didn't miss them one bit in the Wrinkle in Time movie). The plot is still pretty much Christian nonsense, although there's a thing about them falling in love with the same girl that's... sort of... weird?

I also can't get over the fact that they come back and then conceal their adventure from their family. WTF.

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Pointless, boring and kind of inane. Sandy and Dennys are not very good characters, and the plot is a rambling, irritating jumble of nonsense. Reminds me of the worst of the Narnia books.