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Review title: Mind-Numbing Pabulum
Product review: If you're a religious wackaloon, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, don't bother. Don't get me wrong, the writing in this novel is perhaps Irving's best ever...it's just the premise behind this story that makes it a 1 star read. Even if you're intellectually undeveloped enough to believe in God, you must ask yourself why an omnipotent being would go to such great lengths to accomplish, in Owen Meany, what he could easily do himself simply by waving his magic wand (or whatever it is the Christian God uses to perform miracles)? Then again, I guess it's no surprise that in a nation full of brain-dead Bible thumpers who consider absurd myths like Noah's ark and Jonah and the whale as actual occurrences, this novel not only seems plausible, but inspiring. To those of us who have learned to think critically, however, this book is 600 pages of mind-numbing pabulum.
