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A Wind in the Door [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Madeleine L'Engle (Author, Reader)
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"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.

In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.

The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"The chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time return in a complex sci-fi / fantasy adventure that is both similar and superior . . . The action is precipitated by Charles Wallace's failing health and his difficulties in being accepted by other children now that he's started school. Meg and O'Keefe are enlisted again to fight evil, this time in the shapre of Echthroi ('Light snuffers. Planet darkeners. The dragons. The worms. Those who hate.'), which are spreading through the universe. Guided by their mysterious teacher Blajeny and accompanied by a myriad-eyed, multiwinged cherubim named Proginoskes, Meg, Calivn and Mr. Jenkins (the crusty, unimaginitive school principal with whom Meg ha shad difficulty in the past) must pass three ordeals in order to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi. Once again it is love that enables Meg to overcome evil, and L'Engle reaches mystical ecstasy in describing Meg's apprehension of the beauty and unity of the universe. Complex concepts of space and time are handled well for youn greaders, and the author creates a suspensful, life-and-death drama that is believably of cosmic significance. Complex and rich in mystical religious insights, this is breathtaking entertainment." --Starred, School Library Journal
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing, Sep 15 1999
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This review is from: A Wind in the Door (Paperback)
I didn't like "A Wrinkle in Time" much but I thought I would give this book a chance. I found it much worse. I really disliked all the pseudo-science, and the scenarios described almost felt psychodelic to me. Also I don't like how the Murray parents are double Ph.D.s and Mrs. (or Dr.) Murray a Nobel Prize contender - all these terms "Nobel Prize", "Ph.D." to me felt like were thrown into the story to add some kind of believability to it which felt really bogus to me. And incidentally, cooking food in a biology lab with a million harmful substances nearby, is something no true scientist would do. I guess it was a cute thing thrown in there but for me it just added to the general pseudoscience feeling. Plotwise, I found Meg rather annoying, and the whole Namer/UnNaming stuff felt super fake. I realize that this is a book for young adults and shouldn't really expect intense character development but I've read other books for young adults that I still find amazing at my age (26) and it practically killed me trying to get through this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An insane nonsensical quest, Feb 12 2012
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Based on the high praise for L'Engle's books I bought "The Time Quintet" thinking that some day the set might make a nice gift for a young person. After reading the first two books, "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" I am astonished that so many readers are fascinated and entertained. I gave two stars to "Wrinkle" and thought that the other books would be much better but "Wind" is even worse. Much of this book is insanely nonsensical, like a hideous psychedelic trip.

What a fiction reader enjoys is participating in "the moment," catching the mood, mentally visualizing the characters and the setting, vicariously identifying with the characters, going with the flow of the dialogue and action. I think "Wind" fails miserably to satisfy most of these elements in the reader's experience. I was determined to finish the book but my patience was tested to the limit. After completing it I went back and decided that for one hundred pages (139-232) I could just as well have only scanned the pages, reading a few sentences on each page. Here Meg experiences a virtual cosmic reality, being inside her sick brother Charles Wallace. There she interacts with various good and evil spectral entities as well as delusional representations of a real person (Jenkins). She also makes extrasensory forays back to reality while ensconced in Charles. In the end her brother gets cured--I say: "Who cares how?" Who can honestly keep track of what is happening without making analytical notes? Who can enjoy doing so? Are children able to sort through the confusion and cheer on Meg, the heroine? Reviews show that many do. Good for them! Literature offers something for every taste.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not My Type of Literature, April 22 2004
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This review is from: A Wind in the Door (Paperback)
(...)BR>What I could get out of the book was that the star charcater Charles Wallace was sick, badly ill, and his sister, Meg, is really worried for him, and makes it clear she would do anything to help him get better. Then, the one thing I liked most of this book, the plot immediatley comes to play as Charles takes Meg out into a field near their home and tells her there are 'a drive of dragons' somewhere. But at first Meg doesn't see anything. But later on she actually sees this 'drive of dragons' is truly a creature named Progo(well the name's longer than that but this is what Meg calls him throughout the story.) He's a science-fiction masterpiece with many wings and eyes. This creature sparks a journey that involves Meg, her supposed boyfriend named Calvin, and Progo itself as they are assigned to help save Charles from fatally evil beings called the Echthroi, who want to destroy Charles, as well as the world itself.
This book just wasn't my type of literature, but I didn't hate it. I just wasn't into the novel; I didn't feel any sort of connection like you should in a book.
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