My mom bought this book for me and made me promise I'd read it. When I started it, I was a bit slow to get going with it. At first I just didn't take to it. It actually took me months to get through the first half, because I kept getting distracted by other books. I am so glad she kept pushing m...
I can't even begin to describe how awesome this book was, nor how to describe the story of Owen Meany and his childhood friend Johnny Wheelright. There are so many incredibly funny and touching moments, you will laugh out loud at Owen's antics (LOL, the doctor's volkswagon). Other reviewers have men...
I know that people love this, and I did find it moving at times. However, I also experienced it as reasonably clunky, with a strained plot and awkward prose. The point I thought was most compelling--How did the narrator become such a timid, rigid, doubting man?--was not answered by his developmental...
I read this book for a class in high school, and it still one of those books that remains lodged in my memory. Poignant and at times disturbing it is not a light read.
This is one of those books that people either adore or they despise. I'm in the second group. I hated this book. Loathed it. Wanted to set it on fire. I absolutely don't get it. And one of my favorite people in the whole world has told me she loves this book. It's, in fact, her favorite book. How c...
None of John Irving's novels have touched me as much as much as this one, and if you ask me, his work went drastically down hill after he wrote this. You can read my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/08/04/john-irvings-masterpiece/
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