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Pros
I was captivated and had a hard time puttting the book down once started. But be patient. This man is stunningly brilliant! Hold on and read until the end and then read the author interview. I'm still in tears at the book's end, which grieves as hard ... Read More
The book is about two boys, 11 years old when the story starts, that grow up together in a small new hampshire town. The story is john reminiscing about his life with his best and closest friend owen meany. This tale is rife with sentiments one would ... Read More
Cons
The book is a total disappointment! This is one of the slowest books i have ever read. One of the few books that i can call forgettable.
Owen meany comes off as an angry, rude, kid. Nothing like the obnoxiously funny, and cute character portrayed in the movie. The main character that narrates the story - johnny wheelwright - is boring.
Other reviews indicate slogging through will reap a reward. It's just that it's boring and tedious to read. Those are like detours that take you too far off the main path - and they are boring.
It's hard to sustain suspense or interest for 600 pages. Irving's pretentious face was giant-sized on my edition of this book, proclaiming, i am a wri-tor!
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Quality
After a lifetime of reading quality novels and nonfiction i consider this book to be the best
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Packaging/appearance
Yet all of this is in service to explaining the first sentence of the the story
Competitiveness
I never reread a bood or rewatch a movie or an episode
A delightful touching story of a mis shapen but heroic character in john irving style
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This world we humans are so strange
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And too many young men and women who were affected by the vietnam war
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However there were also scenes in which that attention to detail felt interminable and ended up annoying me like a guest at a dinner party who could tell a rousing story that charms and amuses the audience but then launches into an overly detailed and explained diatribe that certainly shows the others how much he knows and has researched but is the equivalent of a dreaded droning lecture that has people squirming in their seats
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The writing is powerful and overall the story is immersive and worth slogging through some of the slower frustrating bits
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Owens speaking in capital letters so adorably annoying
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I have to say though john irving is very long winded
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I never reread a bood or rewatch a movie or an episode
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A prayer for owen meany is a profoundly christian novel though it’s not a “christian book
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