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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading this novel, and it is so phenominal that I'm almost speechless, and I'm sad that it is over. The story is engrossing, rich, moving, tragic, and satisfying, and the imagery is extraordinarily powerful. The plot takes place during the first half of the 1900's in rural Maine, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6400495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was actually really surprised at how much I enjoyed this book.  I am VERY Pro-Life and was very skeptical before about picking it up...although I love John Irving as an author.  He is excellent at character development and his stories are so multifaceted that you are never disappointed.  This is c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13331277">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always struggled with Irving and <em>Cider House Rules</em> is no exception.  It's not that Irving is a poor writer, no one can argue that.  His characters are always fully-fleshed and alive on the page and each sentence drips with so much detail that you think you're going to get splinters when Homer a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/896108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[John Irving might just be my favorite contemporary author.  No current author can move me with their storytelling quite as capably as he.<br/><br/>I picked up this book to read on a recent trip to New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire.  I had previously seen the movie and I knew that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29980881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love John Irving but stayed away from this work for years because of the &quot;abortion&quot; issue.  I didn't want to be preached to, (in principle I am against abortion)  and I foolishly underestimated Irving's ability to create a complete work, one in which &quot;abortion&quot; was a small part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14900483">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started the Cider House Rules after giving up on 3 novels that just couldn't hold my attention.<br/>John Irving will certainly make you love reading again. The Cider House Rules is once again a novel rich with characters so real you forget this is fiction and you care about what happens to them....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14294241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cider House Rules started fairly slow, but I found myself engrossed in it more and more as I waded through. The novel focuses largely on the issue of abortion and often confronts the main points with such bald truth that it can feel a little harsh. The story itself isn't as predictable as many novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5292222">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it like I loved The World According to Garp.  Anybody else ever confuse John Updike with John Irving from time to time?  Whoops.  <br/><br/>Homer Wells is an orphan at St. Clouds, where Wilbur Larch is giving safe, illegal abortions to women and delivering unwanted babies.  I <em>still</em> cannot say ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18154245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After seeing the movie (which I loved), I knew I wanted to read the book. It's still the only Irving book I've read, but it made me want to read all of them. Homer Wells is a character that I could identify with in a strange, but very specific way. (No, I'm not an orphan. But I have felt so many of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4355943">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my first irving novel----how late i came to irving! this novel is full of secrets that you only start to see in hindsight as you reflect on what you've read. irving's depictions of relationships are uniquely complex and full of mysteries that draw me in as a reader and force me to take a very close ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2248220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OK - this is the second book.  Can you tell I like John Irving?   Many people have seen the movie based - pretty faithfully thanks to the author's involvement - on the book.   I must say I prefer to remember Toby Maguire from this role, however much fun I found Spiderman.<br/><br/>Like most John Irv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9884149">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[really liked this book, the film hasn't a tenth of the story, depth, character et all that is in the book. i highly recommend it and not just to you princes of Maine.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book with a good story.  However, it is not one of my favorite of John Irving's novels. There is a sexual scene  with a woman and a horse that set me off guard somewhere near the beginning of the novel.  I also had a difficult time with Doctor Larch's ether addiction as well as his un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13531672">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author has a great talent for writing. I was impressed at the vividness of the writing and the ability he had of adding humor to the horrible. That being said, there was much too much of the horrible for my liking. Death, betrayal, incest, addiction, self annihilation, and no hope for progress.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9902960">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it could have been better at the end - I'm not really one for books in which everyone has screwed up multiple lives by the end.  Still, it made me think.  Also, sort of a 2nd-generation-redeems-the-first if you like that sort of thing - like Star Wars and Wuthering Heights.  Which I guess I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16612600">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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