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[rootofnewt]

So... I finished The Fourth Hand last night. It's been several years since I read any Irving. Now I need to find something else to read. I'm tempted to read another John Irving book. I have one (A Widow For One Year) that I haven't read, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for it. It's also a hardcover, which will actually *hurt* to read.

Hrmmm...

Oh. Just went in to see just how big the book was. It's large, even for a hardcover. I think I'll re-read Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, which I have in softcover. And I was just contemplating re-reading it last night. Yes, this will do. It won't hurt quite so much.

I can't believe I'm judging what I read by how much physical pain the book will cause. *sigh*

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[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed A Widow for One Year much more than I enjoyed The Fourth Hand, so I'd recommend it if you can find it in softcover.

A lot of people I know who read TFH didn't like the female characters because they were so stereotyped. What do you think?

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

As a friend of mine who lived in California for a while says, "You'll like it! It's short!"

(He says it ironically. Someone there actually said that to him, and it shocked the daylighs out of him, as an east-coast effete intellectual screenwriter. Then he caught himself saying it, and moved back to the east coast.)

[aracknee.livejournal.com]

I'm curious what you thought of The Fourth Hand. I haven't read it yet. I read A Widow for One Year and was slightly disappointed, but not in a way I could exactly put my finger on. In general, though, I've enjoyed his earlier books much more than the last few.

[laverick.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I'm judging what I read by how much physical pain the book will cause.
I hate having to do that too. And smaller writing makes the spasms worse, so sometimes I've had to put a book back because they don't have it in larger type. *sigh*

Off to read more of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary. I'm a big John Irving fan too, but I had forgotten the name--now i know what to look for on my next library trip.

[bbick.livejournal.com]

Odd, I'm reading The Fourth Hand right now, too.

Very, very slowly...so little time to read. I am finding it amusing. I have the urge to fashion a lacrosse stick for myself so that I too can fling any dog poop that I find where it shouldn't be at unsuspecting passersby. Preferably the ones who are tossing cigarette butts out of their car windows.