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Review title: Maybe I'm missing something
Product review: I was surprised, but I didn't enjoy this book at all. I felt like I was being hit over the head with symbolism (hands being cut off, etc) and never understood many of the relationships (how did Owen and John become friends? how did Hester and Owen hit it off somehow?) Between this and Cider House Rules, I felt like the same characters were hitting me over the head: the weak father figures, the sexually ambivalent males, the strong-willed but sexually predatory and tormented women (either that or they were dumb-mute type women). I won't be reading any more Irving. Seemed to me the man needs therapy.
