Read it again.  And, again. And, again. And...
925419
I've read IT TAKES TWO three times in the past year, and I will read it again.  And, probably again after that.

The plot's 1949 "Florida Glam" location is great, however, it's the characters that will have you making repeat visits to the Caloosa Hotel in cracker controlled Fort Myers. Major or minor, white, black, Latino, gay, straight or bi, male, female, or entertainingly in-between, Mackle has created a discreet - far from tragically closeted - community that welcomes those they trust and/or teach to live fully, and love freely. As the main character argues, it's what they fought a world war for.

I. Love. This. Book.
3287464
So good I read it twice...and have recommended it numerous times. Enjoyable yet thought-provoking read.
4004881
I've read this book twice now.  I liked it the first time, the second time I loved it.
348100
read the book, read the book again, saw the movie, starting the book again. Its a book you will want to read again and again
3112361
I must read over ans over again! Each time (my third) it gets better and more enjoyable!
2073102
I'm rereading it after so many years....and love it as much as I did the first time!!
3562358
I have just re-read this for the umpteenth time.  What a corker!  It is amazing that the same character treatments--of Jones and of the various gay characters--that kept this "Modern Classic" from publication in its author's lifetime may well have also kept it from pubication (on Madison Avenue, anyway)in our time, for politically correct reasons. If you have not read it, do so soon--and then put it away for a fresh re-reading the next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and ... you get the idea; I doubt that any book outside the Bible will be reread more than this will.  It remains fresh every time!

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4391755
Excellent! I have read this book many, many times. If you haven't- do yourself a favor- read it, then read it again.
4762163
Yes, of _course_ it's a re-read.

When I was about eight or ten, I thought this was the very best book in the world. Today, I still think it's pretty darned good. I didn't re-read it directly because of the movie, but because it's being done for my book club; in the meanwhile, it was about time to re-read it anyway.

If you haven't read it, you should. L'Engle plays in the same garden as Gene Wolfe and R.A. Lafferty: the garden where the boundary between science fiction and fantasy dissolves under the influence of the Divine. Not to be misleading: L'Engle is neither as labyrinthine as Wolfe, nor as satirical as Lafferty, nor, come to think of it, does she play her cards as close to the vest as either of them. But this is fitting in a book for young readers; she is about as subtle in her religious symbolism as, say, C.S. Lewis in the _Narnia_ books.

OK, enough namedropping. What's it about?

My daughter summed it up the other day like this: "Some kids go to space to save the dad of some of them." Well, and that is a perfect blurb, in that it is completely accurate and completely misleading.

Meg Murray, a brilliant young woman of roughly ten to twelve, is emotionally disturbed because her father, a brilliant scientist, has been missing for about two years. Her mother, also a brilliant scientist (they run in flocks, you know), is sure he will come home and continues to write to him daily.

On a dark and stormy night (yes, the book begins with _that_ line), Meg and her mother are having cocoa in the kitchen with Meg's four-year-old brother, Charles Wallace (who is bloody brilliant but doesn't speak in front of people he doesn't trust), when there is a knock at the door. In comes a weird old woman, Mrs. Whatsit yclept, who clowns a bit and tells Mrs. Murray that "there _is_ such a thing as a tesseract," causing Mrs. M. to go pale.

With their new friend Calvin O'Keefe, Meg and Charles Wallace are taken by Mrs. Whatsit and her friends Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which to the planet Uriel, there to see the evil known as the Dark Thing engulf a planet. This is what Mr. Murray is fighting; this, what shadows the Earth and brings evil. But Earth is only shadowed, and fighting back with great leaders, scientists, and artists leading the way. (This, by the way, is the one time in the book that Jesus is explicitly mentioned.)

The plot accelerates smoothly to the point that it's kind of amazing how much is crammed into the last twenty pages, and never fails to enthrall the reader - at least, _this_ reader.

L'Engle wrote many other books, including (depending on how you count) three, four, or seven sequels to _Wrinkle_. Though I have never failed to enjoy her work, none of it, to my mind, reaches the heights of this one, a life's masterwork.
4158684
Like I said reread it a few times. Amazing book. Pure fantasy, but really convincing and humane. Peter Straub's touch dilutes Stephen King's descent into frightening horror. Read it while travelling in America (airport  shopping)in 1985 for the first time and several times since then. Loved it  and still do.
375219
Time and time again ... phenomenal read - so long into the series!
4466606
One of my favorites in the series, read this one twice.
4157426
Loved reading it this time as much as the first time, when it first came out.
1830391
Read years ago, but loved it just as much; 2nd. time
594465
I just reread it and enjoyed it just as much, if not more, the second time around. There are already a lot of reviews so I would just like to say that I highly recommend this series!
2666281
I have bought this book twice.  I thought I was through the first time but I wanted to re-read it.  Still have it.
3973212
Had read it several times before, probably 10 years ago.  Then I lost it (left it on a airplane.)  So I wanted to have it in my 'library' and will read it again at my leisure, even though science has changed a bit since it was written.