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Review title: Disappointing
Product review: The blurb on the back of this book said "one of Irving's most comical novels" or something very much to that effect. I hope this is not so. I had never read Irving and hoped to find something with the quirky characters I've seen in the Garp movie. No luck. The book has an awkward sense of time, moving back and forth much too often. As an aspiring writer, I find it incredibly in need of editing also. It meanders so much, almost like a King novel. What should take one page to describe often takes 2 or 3. If I submitted something like this, do you think it would have been accepted? The first 600 pages of this book is merely a set-up for the last 10. Skip the 500 pages in the middle, as I did. This would have worked much better as a 30 page short story.
