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Title: The rest of you are lying; you couldn't finish it.
Review: There's no John Irving novel I don't love, except this one. Most of them, I have re-read about five times. Even "The Water-Method Man", one of his weaker novels, I read twice.I couldn't finish this one, not in THREE separate attempts, at three very different times in my life, three different frames of mind. There's nothing wrong with my reading skills. I'm forced to conclude the rest of you are lying.Siggy and Hannes are simply not characters one can care about, and the actual writing is wretched.
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