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kleinbl00  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00s Reviews #9: "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving

See, at least the end had a purpose. My beef is that the story did not set up the end. The story in general was likeable, but overlong and full of people who were boring. I mean, the protagonist is capital-B Boring. The girl is a shrill stereotype. Everyone else is a stock character out of central casting. And they muddle along doing nothing for hundreds and hundreds of pages.

It bored me. That's probably why it took me a year and a half to read it, during which time I read four books on kindle and twenty two books on audible.

SPEAKING IN ALL CAPS WAS EXCRUCIATING.