Title: Lots of pages, lots of potential, but a lousy result
Product review: Had this novel been written by someone other than John Irving, I would have put it back on the shelf after 200 pages, but I am a huge John Irving fan and kept waiting (and waiting) for him to deliver. The pages kept coming, the potential for a wonderful novel was there, but in the end: a big miss.My chief complaint: as John Irving has become more successful (and wealthier), the net worth of his characters has increased, and they manage to solve -- with relative ease -- the financial hurdles that ordinary folks would find impossible to conquer. Frankly, the emotional troubles of the well-to-do lack substance when these same problems would exert far greater woe upon those who work for a living. Mr. Irving seems to have lost touch with this concept, and lost touch with his faithful readers in the process.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
