Status Updates From A Prayer For Owen Meany

The formula for a chapter looks like this: Irving writes beautiful, funny, sad scenes of boyhood for the first third. In the second third, Owen is shown to be precocious in some way and Johnny flashes forward to adulthood to emphasize the themes the former embodied. In the third third, Owen becomes Jesus Christ and is worshipped by those around him. The book would be better if restricted to that first third