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Title: Irving is past his prme
Review: John Irving has not written a good novel since Owen Meaney. This book is not about dreams because it is a nightmare. Pat Wallingford is one of the most uninteresting characters I've ever encountered. The doctor and the housekeeper are the real interesting characters. This is a novel about eating and we could only have wished the lion took a bigger bite out of Patrick to spare us the agony. Too many of the minor characters read like acquainances of Irving's thinly veiled in fiction. Must be a fun inside joke for his friends to read, but otherwise don't bother.
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