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Title: A huge disappointment
Review: John Irving has given us so many wonderful novels that awarding him a mere one star is painful - but only as painful as this empty, unappealing book. Was it the challenge of writing a novel about a vapid and shallow man that even he could not admire or like that produced such a work? With each new Irving title you hope for an experience as rich as "Garp" or "Owen" or "Cider House." This work is at the very bottom of the Irving canon. Better luck to all of us next time.
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