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| Original Title: | Until I Find You |
| ISBN: | 0345479726 (ISBN13: 9780345479723) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jack Burns, Emma Oastler, Michelle Maher |
John Irving
Paperback | Pages: 820 pages Rating: 3.64 | 24268 Users | 1549 Reviews
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| Title | : | Until I Find You |
| Author | : | John Irving |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 820 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2006 by Ballantine Books (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels |
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Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's song, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.Rating About Books Until I Find You
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John Irving is an inspirational author and I use many of his books as examples on how to write a good book. A Widow for One Year is in my Top 10 books of all time. Until I Find You is far from brilliant. It's tedious, self-indulgent and boring. As much as I like to see authors making money and winning Oscars (The Cider House Rules), I'm not in favour of the power they weild afterwards. No first-time author would be indulged in this way. Typical John Irving characters. I was hoping for moreWhen I first met with my thesis advisor in graduate school and told him I wanted to do my thesis on John Irving, he told me two things. The first was a sort of snobby view of Irving and all his work, which was, my advisor said, "the practice of writing the same book over and over again."The next comment was full of envy and the desire to do exactly what Irving had done with Garp and The Cider House Rules. "If only I could do that myself," he said.Well, yeah. And the truth is, I don't care what
Penis, penis, penis Jack chantedThat about covers it (pg.312)Seriously, this book has much more to offer than penises, although, I have to admit, that penis is probably the one word that sticks out the most oh, and tattoo too.Can't blame any reader if they throw in the towel sometime in the first half. The life and story of Jack Burns can get under your skin pretty fast. From the books I read by John Irving this is probably the most lugubrious one. It was my second reading and I realized what
Life is too short. I can't handle this book for one more page. I made it to page 148. And I'm just sickened. It gets two stars since I just can't bring myself to give it any more chances, and maybe it gets better. But in a quest looking for spoilers, I found that the things that bother me so only get worse. I love other work by John Irving. This is just dreadful, though. I decided after sticking through Bleak House (Dickens) that I would be okay with book abandonment. I won't do it often. I have
This is the most personal book I have read of Irving's and I am a huge fan. I've read everything save one book, the one that was a very successful movie. "Until I Find You" is a tough book to get into. The first few chapters are painstaking and seem laborious but you cannot put the book aside. Then in a single moment it becomes essential to know the story, know what happens to this little boy, because you care about him in his over-the-top quirky yet very sad yet oblivous existence. For an
I have very much enjoyed the other novels by John Irving I have read (Garp, Owen Meany, Widow for One Year), but I did NOT in any way enjoy "Until I Find You." All the classic Irving tropes are here (wrestling, prostitutes, New Hampshire, older women, people of small stature), but all are deployed in an absolutely forced, joyless, airless manner. The best thing I can say about this novel is that Irving's prose is typically readable. That is also the ONLY positive thing I can think to say about
This is a case for me of a pure gut/emotional reaction, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.First of all, this book has totally sold me on John Irving. I read "A Prayer for Owen Meany", and had the hardest time getting into it. I really liked about the last hundred pages, but getting there was a chore, to be quite honest.But this book, this book had me from the first line to the last. And it is directly because of all of the personal parallels. You have the musician (I'm a musician, a pianist
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