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One star for a book you loved? Weird.
This was an immensely helpful review! Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Yeah that is a pretty major oversight considering that Bears are perhaps the one giant narrative tic that runs through the whole man’s career. I feel like in this book it wasn’t front and center, but still…
He does recycle some characters in here (Owen, Hester, John-O to mention a few) as well but I took that as a final go-round for followers and perhaps a bit of a guy at the end of his game but still writing in an entertaining and delightfully funny way.
Bears. Bears are another one of his tics (good term, btw). Are there any in this book? Thanks for that honest review. I'm a huge John Irving fan but noticed his writing had gone a little wonky with Avenue of Mysteries. Though I did enjoy that novel, and laughed pretty heard as well as cried, it really could have been improved with a good editing. I think I'll skip this one and maybe go find one of his earlier works I missed.
I just finished it and loved it! Classic Irving.
My main gripes exactly. He desperately needed an editor with a spine on this one. He could have easily cut 300 pages if he had only stopped repeating everyone’s nicknames! Irving is still one of my favorite American authors, with Owen Meany and Cider House firmly entrenched in my top ten books of all time but this book did nothing for me. Shame.
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This was an immensely helpful review! Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Yeah that is a pretty major oversight considering that Bears are perhaps the one giant narrative tic that runs through the whole man’s career. I feel like in this book it wasn’t front and center, but still…
He does recycle some characters in here (Owen, Hester, John-O to mention a few) as well but I took that as a final go-round for followers and perhaps a bit of a guy at the end of his game but still writing in an entertaining and delightfully funny way.
Bears. Bears are another one of his tics (good term, btw). Are there any in this book? Thanks for that honest review. I'm a huge John Irving fan but noticed his writing had gone a little wonky with Avenue of Mysteries. Though I did enjoy that novel, and laughed pretty heard as well as cried, it really could have been improved with a good editing. I think I'll skip this one and maybe go find one of his earlier works I missed.
I just finished it and loved it! Classic Irving.
My main gripes exactly. He desperately needed an editor with a spine on this one. He could have easily cut 300 pages if he had only stopped repeating everyone’s nicknames! Irving is still one of my favorite American authors, with Owen Meany and Cider House firmly entrenched in my top ten books of all time but this book did nothing for me. Shame.
