The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by John Irving
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Author: John IrvingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-23
ISBN: 034541800X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Dear John
Summary: 5 Stars
This, my first John Irving Novel, has resurrected the rare feeling one gets from well written novels (the `good reading' feeling). This feeling is hard to bring about these days. It makes me wonder whether I should be looking for good novels written twenty and even thirty years ago. Are the authors of today writing for the sake of the buck, requiring only tenth grade reading comprehension? Why insult our intelligence? Why the cruelty against the sophisticated reader?
Where can one find today the same feelings of richness of words, meaningful dialogs and a story that keeps coming again and again with an unprecedented uniqueness the caliber of Delillo, Franzen and Auster? Where can one discover characters with the likes of Bogus and Biggie, Tulpin and Ralf Packer? Did they only exist in the books written before the turbulent 80's?
Here is a recommendation. Why not have a special shelf in the public libraries dedicated only to the likes of Irving, Delillo,Franzen and Auster? Why not call this shelf `The Greatest Authors of our generation' to make it easier for readers hungry to immerse themselves in the `good reading' feeling?
John, I thank you. I thank you for the patience that carried you through the process of writing, for the incredibly creative mind that pieced together this astonishing book.
Keep writing John, keep writing and I promise - I'll keep reading you.
I highly recommend this book. If you are searching for other gems of creativity try: Don Delillo's `The Body Artist', Jonathan Franzen's `The Correction' and Paul Auster's `The Brooklyn Follies'
By Simon Cleveland
Summary of The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...."Three or four times as funny as most novels."
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