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Review title: Time consuming...
Product review: Once again, John Irving drags 300 pages worth of story out to a 700 page reading hell rife with barely related tangents and pet peeves. As with all of his other novels (with the exception of The World According to Garp - great as both movie and book) it made a much better movie than a novel thanks to treatment by good screenwriters who know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. How this man ever got to be such a popular novelist with such poor editing skills I will never know. I actually got to the point of simply not being able to take it anymore within a hundred pages of the end and tossed this book into the recycling bin.
