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Review title: Wonderful, but long and wandering
Product review: Marvelous story-telling. Hilarious set-piece episodes that could easily stand alone (I'm thinking of the side-splittingly-funny Christmas pageant, in particular). Amid all the rollicking entertainment, there are powerful messages on literature, love, history, and God scattered throughout the book.Now: why only 4 stars?Nobody ever accused John Irving of being concise - and he's not. Owen Meany is loooong, and there were many places I wished for an editor with a lawn mower to cut the weeds from this otherwise wonderful book.
