Posted by Ritch on May 9, 2002, at 10:18:44
In reply to Owen Meany and other stuff » Ritch, posted by kiddo on May 9, 2002, at 1:17:56
> Hopefully I'll be able to get it started after Sunday....
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> I'm really crunched for time but Ii'll be back soon.
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> How has it gone so far? The part I read reminded me of a movie with Ashley Judd as the mom of a boy, with a friend that killed her by hitting her in the head with a baseball at a game....does this sound familiar?
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> I've never read this author before, have you? I must say, the books I tend to read are Jonathan Kellerman, Stephen White, Tami Hoag, on that line....the first two are psychologist turned detective and Tami Hoag is a mystery/suspense on the legal side of it....
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> Cya Soon!
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> Kiddo
Hi Kiddo,I read Garp and Cider House many years ago when I was unemployed. I could tell right away that I was reading an Irving novel. You evidently have gotten further into it. I read prob. a dozen pages and that's it! However, I picked up some weird stuff already. He (Irving) always has people getting killed or bizarrely maimed in his novels-usually in the context of some kind of hilarious circumstance. The character of Owen Meaney is small, frail, waifish. Everybdoy is picking him up and carrying him around and then setting him on a coat/hat tree and letting him dangle there until they took him down... Uh oh, is Owen going to represent an unwilling Jesus? That's what it kinda looks like. "Ok, elevate me and hand me about, crucify me take me down, I am playing a part I can't get out of, but I don't really want to play it".... Weird. I hope this doesn't end leaving me too depressed. The other two of his had this riotuous (righteous?) humor in the beginning and then it fades into despairing weirdness.
oh well,
Mitch
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