Book Review: "A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeleine L'Engle

Since I'm all concussed, I'm trying to read children's classics that I have not read before. "Peter Pan" was fine, I'm liking "The Jungle Book" better than I thought I would (though that one's taking me longer), and I decided that since I never read "A Wrinkle in Time" in elementary school, now that I do the whole fantasy thing it was about time. It's referenced a lot when I read about fantasy literature, and while I never cared, I can't read books I care about right now, so why not.
Meh. It was fine. Clearly a kid's fantasy book, so whatever. At least that was my review until the last 30 pages or so. I had heard that there was a lot of spiritual stuff in it, the author was a Christian, blah, blah, blah, but I didn't realize that then there would be a slew of Bible verses thrown at me in such forced ways. It was terrible. I just kept thinking of how Tolkien hated allegory because it's the forced will of the author upon the reader. Good fantasy doesn't need it spelled out. A reader should be able to draw their own insights from it. Even "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," though it's clear allegory, doesn't use Bible verses. Tolkien does use one in FOTR, but it's a simple, "Do not let your hearts be troubled," from Galadriel to the Fellowship after Gandalf falls in Moria.
I'm glad I finally read it, because I felt like I should, but I can't say I thought it was good, based on the impression I was left with.