A Prayer for Owen Meany

JaBlue · #1 12-09-2005, 07:27 AM

I just finished this book tonight.

Holy [censored].

Have any of you read it? What'd you think?

Alobar · #2 12-09-2005, 07:31 AM

never even heard of it...is it new? who writes it?

JaBlue · #3 12-09-2005, 07:44 AM

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by John Irving, it is 15 yrs old and says "#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER" on it

stabn · #4 12-09-2005, 07:55 AM

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Have any of you read it? What'd you think?

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I read it in high school and thought it was a great book.

Il_Mostro · #5 12-09-2005, 08:15 AM

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Have any of you read it? What'd you think?

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Havn't read that one, it's on my shelf but I havn't gotten around to it yet.
I have, however, read a few other Irving books and heartily recomend them. The Cider house rules is an amazing book, one of my all time favourites. Hotel New Hampshire is also great, but in other ways the The cider, it's basically slapstick in book-form, done very very well.

diebitter · #6 12-09-2005, 08:19 AM

Haven't read this, but I've read 'the world according to Garp' and liked that a lot. Very nice style of writing. I'd recommend Garp to anyone, and I guess this is probably on a par?

private joker · #7 12-09-2005, 08:28 AM

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.

ChipWrecked · #8 12-09-2005, 09:17 AM

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I'd recommend Garp to anyone

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Great effort making that into a movie.

You're a film guy, could you imagine being tasked with "Film 'Garp'"?

diebitter · #9 12-09-2005, 09:19 AM

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Great effort making that into a movie.

You're a film guy, could you imagine being tasked with "Film 'Garp'"?

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Yeah, he did a good job. John Lithgow was pretty good as the transexual football player (I'm not kidding!) In fact, I liked the film so much, it led me to read the book.

#10 12-09-2005, 09:19 AM

Yea I read it and remember liking it...