So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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This book was a birthday gift from a German friend living in the USA. I didn't get around to reading it for a few years and did so, ironically, on a plane to Germany to visit her parents while she was still in the USA. Read it in one sitting on that long trip. It's one of those books that challenges you to continue reading to the end. It superficially appears to be merely narrative about the life of an odd guy, and continues, and continues until you're asking "what's the point of all this?" At the same time Owen Meany is asking "what's the point of this?" as well. At the end the point is shatteringly clear and accepted by Owen, clear to the reader, and amazingly simple. Not a book for folks who require things to be straightforward to be enjoyable. I thought it was a brilliant piece of fiction.
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Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
archetype, January 2, 2010
This book was a birthday gift from a German friend living in the USA. I didn't get around to reading it for a few years and did so, ironically, on a plane to Germany to visit her parents while she was still in the USA. Read it in one sitting on that long trip. It's one of those books that challenges you to continue reading to the end. It superficially appears to be merely narrative about the life of an odd guy, and continues, and continues until you're asking "what's the point of all this?" At the same time Owen Meany is asking "what's the point of this?" as well. At the end the point is shatteringly clear and accepted by Owen, clear to the reader, and amazingly simple. Not a book for folks who require things to be straightforward to be enjoyable. I thought it was a brilliant piece of fiction.(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)