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Review title: "Dickensian" MY ARSE
Product review: Several times, I've seen people compare John Irving to Charles Dickens. This could not be further from the truth. Dickens wrote in a way that allows the reader to make his/her own discoveries about a character through patient, nuanced prose that is in no sense self-aware. Irving, in contrast, like so many popular contemporary authors, draws such conclusions for the reader, telling him/her exactly what to think. If I had the book with me, I'd dig up an example passage, but I'm talking about things like, "He was one of those people who has property X."To make matters worse, the narration from Canada was out of place and exceedingly awkward, and it even weakened the already ruined novel.Recommended for light entertainment only, and even that only for those who do not mind prose that is blatantly self-conscious.
