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    <body><![CDATA[this book is so unique in that it's absolutely not what you would expect from john irving. It's only his second or third book, and you can see the beginnings of Garp in it, but it's so simple and streamlined compared to some of his later work. It's a sweet, funny story with extremely memorable chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5994756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed by <em>The Water-Method Man</em>, which is John Irving's second book.  No agent would be able to sell this book today; the story is interesting, but the execution is weak.  Irving's prose is confusing and inconsistent, with jumps from first to third person and seemingly random changes in P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40574635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised in reading this early John Irving novel to find so many precursors of the documentary style I first encountered in The World According to Garp. In addition to both first-person and third-person passages of narrative, the book is filled with letters, bits of film scripts, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55203950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of his earlier books, and it is amazingly written. The first sentence alone still makes me shake my head in wonder. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i want to read this because the main character has frequent urinary tract infections. but i cannot get into it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strangely enough, I thought it was crude.  I put it down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, my first John Irving Novel, has resurrected the rare feeling one gets from well written novels (the `good reading' feeling). This feeling is hard to bring about these days. It makes me wonder whether I should be looking for good novels written twenty and even thirty years ago. Are the authors ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30908540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily the best part of this book is either the &quot;most amazing&quot; boob loop scene or &quot;thump-thump's&quot; encounter with the rather odd but amusing duck hunters. Otherwise it's just some guy that's gone through a bad marriage has no relationship with his parents, and can't pee right. Som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61664862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[part of it takes place in iowa city, and the protagonist is a PhD student with an unfinished dissertation looming over everything he does.  for these reasons alone i found the book engaging.  it's one of the few irving texts that makes the underlying sexism tolerable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't even count the number of times I laughed out loud reading this. I wasn't totally sold on the structure--Irving switches between first and third person and the story is told partly in flashback--but I thought the characters and story lovable enough.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irving was young when he wrote this one and I believe it is part of three books that he often bundles together.  There was a formula in the book of which I have never been fond; he wrote the main fiction and had a counter fable running through the book at the same time, foreshadowing the &quot;real&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30492139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A funny, well-written, Irving romp, with the usual suspects of wrestleing, bears and whores.<br/><br/>Trumper is having difficulty sustaining interst in his Ph. D. thesis - translation of an obscure text from the old Low Norse.  The text it turns out is the barbaric outline for his life, less the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31593603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed A Prayer for Owen Meany very much, but this book was disappointing.  I think the 1970s straight-man sex and relationship humor was a bit overwrought.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hear a lot of people saying they did not care for this book, that it isn't true of Irving, that the story within a story drives them nuts. To me, *this is my 4th Irving* The Water-Method Man was all the usual things I love about his novels.<br/>Trumper was a sweet and fucked up guy, Biggie was a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37120470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still working on it, slowly but surely. Not my favorite Irving book, but the psychological profiles are interesting as always.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the only reason to read this is if you want to read everything of John Irving (and see how he recycles...)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First Irving book I read, picked randomly off of Dirk's bookshelf. Some-what funny (not as funny as the dust jacket implies), convoluted novel that has a little too much cleverness packed in its 400 pages. About a urethra challenged man, named Bogus Thrumper (ha?), who is reckless in love, but can't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2191283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hopefully I can say more later:<br/><br/>Pleasantly surprised and decently recommendable.<br/><br/>Started in Chamonix and finished in Losone.<br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't remember what it was about, but remember enjoying it.]]></body>
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