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Title: Pretentious or Comic?
Review: I saw that another reviewer said that Irving's work was overly pretentious, which, in a way, I agree with. I just though I ought to mention that one of the things that makes this book very good is that the writing is so pretentious and utterly cliche of a stuck up historian/biographer, to the point were it is cynical and comical. When I first started reading this book, Irving seemed so full of himself that it showed in his writing, but after awhile I could understand that this was just another tool that added to the sarcastic melodrama of the life of Garp. Once you get into the style, it is an excellent read.
