Elizabeth's review of The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan) by John Irving
Elizabeth's review
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Readers who like quirky characters
John Irving's books are always so hard to pin down. I love them because there's never any doubt that you're reading Irving, and his characters are often both intensely eccentric and somehow familiar for that very fact. This is one of my favorites. In general, the books he wrote towards the middle of his career, after he hit his stride and before he started to seem quixotic for weirdness's sake, tend to be my favorites, with this being (arguably) my favorite. The World According to Garp is also worth reading. At the very least, I've never found Irving dull (except for The Fourth Hand, that is).
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