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Old 01-04-2017, 03:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire. Just finished it. Beautifully written.

Spoiler for however:
I was hooked right through to the detonation of the bomb, but the book kind of fell apart for me after that. I was dissatisfied with how John and Franny dealt with their relationship, the Chipper Dove revenge scene was surreal and absurd to the point of ridiculousness, and I didn't like how Susie and John came together in the end. Honestly, I think maybe John should have ended up alone with just a fake hotel pet project. It felt like Irving was trying too hard to give these characters a happy ending after going through so much, but I don't mind bleak endings and I think one would have been more appropriate here.
That was the first book I ever read by John Irving and I loved it. It lead me to a few more of his books in a short span of time, which I also liked a lot, but then I kind of OD'd on him or something and totally lost interest. It's been almost twenty years since I read one of his books, I should probably give him another shot at some point.

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I'm reading...



War & Peace
I'm about half way through, and a lot of it is a little on the boring side honestly, but I'm still glad to be finally seeing what this monstrous "greatest novel ever written" is all about.
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