![]() All he did was dig his own hole deeper and deeper and push people away further and further, yet people stuck by him for some reason, and in some cases even seemed to celebrate him. To think that anybody, even his friend John Wheelwright, would come to bat (pun intended) for him willingly struck me as increasingly peculiar. To begin with, Owen Meany himself is an insufferable little twit. ![]() ![]() If this had been assigned reading for me, I would’ve done what I did with Tess of the d’Urbervilles (which our main character amusingly enough teaches his students later on in the book) back in 12th grade AP English and resorted to SparkNotes rather than read any further. She kept promising me it would get better, but I struggled to find a single redeeming element to keep me pushing forward. ![]() I couldn’t help but break that rule, though, because my word this was a slog. Wouldn’t you know she found that exact book at a Goodwill for me shortly after mentioning it? Naturally, she made it her mission to make me read it, telling me I couldn’t read any other books until I finished it. ![]() Not long ago, my fiancee told me about this book she had to read back in high school that she hated for most of her time reading it, yet wound up liking in the end. ![]()
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