Re: A Prayer for Owen Meany
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I LIKED THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP BUT A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY STARTS TO GET WAY TOO RELIGIOUS AND IRVING IS BECOMING TOO MUCH OF A BORN AGAIN IN MY OPINION. ALSO, THEY MADE A MOVIE OF IT CALLED THE MIGHTY WITH SHARON STONE AND APPARENTLY IT SUCKS.
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LOL!
It is a pretty damn religious, but it's more about faith, than religion, if that makes any sense at all. Anyway, I don't know about Irving's religious status, but his last two novels didn't seem to be very religious at all, though the protagonist went to a religious school in his last novel "Until I Find You," his last novel before that "A Son of the Circus," was set in India and was about a Bollywood actor (I recommend it), and as I recall didn't have any religious overtones, born-again, or not. The religious overtones, I only found in "A Prayer for Owen Meany", which I loved, by the way.
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