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It's sometimes hard to decipher between Juan Diego's dreams/memories and what is actually happening. The story jumps back and forth between Juan Diego as a fourteen yr old and as a fifty-something adult but as always, John Irving does not fail to make his main character endearing.
— Feb 09, 2016 04:03PM
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Just when I had abandoned hope of knowing who was narrating the story, I started to have fun reading it. Actually, it is making me laugh quite often, the oddly amusing and strange predicament that Irving puts Juan Diego into, are so out there; only Irving can do this to his characters. I had started to have 'review stress', wondering how on earth I was going to summarise the events...
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— Feb 12, 2016 09:32AM
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Interestingly, Juan Diego's sister Lupe has a wrecked and strained voice.
How many of Irving's character's have ruined voices? Owen in A Prayer for Owen Meany, Garp after the accident in The World According to Garp... I wonder if this is a vehicle Irving uses in his novels. It reminds me also that quite a few of his main characters are writers...
— Feb 08, 2016 11:21AM
How many of Irving's character's have ruined voices? Owen in A Prayer for Owen Meany, Garp after the accident in The World According to Garp... I wonder if this is a vehicle Irving uses in his novels. It reminds me also that quite a few of his main characters are writers...
