OK, now Audrey Niffenegger, as a debut novel - well done but boy does there have to be so much travelling in the introductory chapters? :) I found it really difficult to both enjoy the book and keep an eye on dates and times and how old Henry was or is when he meets Claire, or does something, or ends up somewhere ahhhhhhh. It took me ages to get into it and when I'd put it down to go make a cup of tea or something I didn't want to go back to it, I vaccumed, did the laundry anything but to have to go back to Chicago or Michigan or wherever Henry jumped to when I wasn't looking, but I couldn't let it beat me, despite the fact that I had to put my life on lock-down to finish this novel I finally got to a point where I could actually enjoy it, Niffenegger is a good writer, I succumbed to her characters in the end, liked the romance, but found the relationship between the older Henry and the child Claire a bit uncomfortable. An, eventually, good read.
The movie, however, was dreadful.