Oof. This is gonna be a tough one to review. First, it should be known that I was not looking forward to this book. Nothing about it called to me. Nothing about the film adaptation ever made me want to watch the movie, either. (Let it be known that I still have no interest in watching the movie.) An...
Russo. King. Rash. Updike. Doctorow. Irving. I'm beginning to notice a similarity amongst east coast writers (mostly from New England) who are usually male and born in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. They like narratives. They like description. They like slow build up. And all of these likes show how much ...
Hardcover, Large Print, 973 pagesPublished July 1st 2000 by Thorndike PressIBN13: 9780786226740I admit, I don't always read the book prior to seeing the movie. While I loved the movie, the book was definitely worth picking up to read. John Irving tends to write a longer novel, but I found he almost ...
Homer Wells is an orphan at St. Cloud's orphanage and he is happy there. He doesn't want to get adopted, he wants to be useful, so he helps out Dr Larch, the founder. He is in charge of the boys and of bringing babys into the world but also gives abortions. Homer is supposed to be Dr Larch's success...
John Irving’s The Cider House Rules follows the coinciding stories of Dr. Wilbur Larch and Homer Wells. Dr. Larch, a young medical professional so wrought over an encounter with a prostitute, ends up devoting his life to helping pregnant women in one fashion or another. Homer Wells is one of the man...
What can I say? This is a classic for a reason. This is my third Irving, after Owen Meany and A Widow For One Year, and by now, I think I pretty much have to read everything the man wrote. I love Irving's calm, measured narrative voice. He made me laugh out loud several times during the book, but i...
This is the story of orphan Homer Wells. Adopted out several times, he just kept coming back, so Doctor Larch, director of the orphanage and also an obstetrician and abortionist, decided to put him to use. By the age of 20 Homer could give a woman an orphan or an abortion, but knew that he didn't ...
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