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Title: From Absurd to Dullness
Review: Well, I was quite enthousiastic about Irving, after reading the New Hamphire Hotel and the water drinker novel (I know its spanish translation only, sorry), and there was a strong campaign for Irving in the formal press, with long and very positive articles dedicated to the newest novel by the Cider House Rules man.And it begins fast, funny and very very interesting, both on what Irving tells and the way he tells it. But... after the main character looses again the hand, the novel descends into the realms of nothingness, and an different novel begins; a very very ordinary love story. Besides, I am European, so I don't know anything about American Football...Remarkable, though; the whole episode of how Patrick lost his hand, the life of Surgeon Zajac and Patrick's sexual adventures with Monika with K and the chewing gum girl, and also the Indian Pills plot. The rest? just pages and pages of dull litterature.
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