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The kindergarten man's sister sends him back to preschool, where she thinks his mental development stopped. Irving must have been sniffing glue when he wrote this stuff. How am I still reading It?

Paul Goode, a character in the novel, is a filmmaker. THE KINDERGARTEN MAN is one off his works. In the film, two men, or a man and a woman, have been targeting kindergarten classes with children from wealthy families. They take them for ransom.

Irving is all over the place in this book. I didn't remember him doing that in the past.

Grandma dies reading MOBY DICK.

MOBY DICK frightens the River Benders, but Nana loves it.

Adam's aunts, Martha and Abigail, move his grandmother River Bend, an old folks home, but she has the last laugh.

Adam's mom had a three-way relationship with Adam's older friend Molly and Mr. Barlow.

Mr. Barlow is gay. Nora and Em, two of Adam's best friends, have a comedy routine.

Adam and Mr. Barlow have a confrontation at Penn Station. A man accuses Adam of being a draft dodger.

Adam and Mr. Barlow have a conflict with four guys at Penn Station. Afterwards they kid around. "Four huge guys--all of them communists," Adam told Barlow.

Adam's English teacher,Elliot Barlow, is very short, weighing only 130 lbs. but he had an "interior mischief", "an instinct for confrontation", For instance he liked to dress as a woman and he didn't care who knew it.