- Hardcover: 848 pages
- Publisher: Random House (2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1400063833
- ISBN-13: 978-1400063833
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.7 x 4.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
He mentioned Halifax!,
By Mary Lavers "Beatnik Mary" (Dartmouth, NS, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Until I Find You (Paperback)
It was alright. John Irving seems to be re-writing his own story the way he wished it had happened--the hairy sexually dominant older girl, for example. But a few things were left sloppy and the author's voice could be so frustrating. As with all John Irving novels, I wanted to shout at him for drawing all the wrong conclusions about people, yet I couldn't put the book down.For more please visit my blog, CozyLittleBookJournal!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved It,
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This review is from: Until I Find You (Paperback)
This is the first book of John Irving that I have read and I have been truly enjoying it. I looked at the size of the book and hesitated starting it but once I got into it I got hooked.I think that the story can relate better to guys and those that enjoy trips into peoples darker (real) side exposing who they are and why. The author writes in a manner that I am enjoying and I like how he tells the story twice; once as remembered by a four year old (as it happens) and the second time as the adult speaking to those involved. He finds out that reality was not what he was told and remembers. It is obviously a story that you either love or hate as displayed by the reviews; I am on the side of loving it and encourage you to see for yourself. I will be reading other John Irving books as a result of Until I Find You.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Probably John Irving's Worst Book,
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This review is from: Until I Find You (Hardcover)
This turgid lump of a novel continues the sad decline in Mr. Irving's work that we saw with <i> The Fourth Hand</i>. It was a chore to finish, and I would have given up, except that Mr. Irving has written so many great books, I kept expecting this one to get better or for something clever and great to happen. It really never does.The story follows the life and career of Jack Burns, a successful movie actor with a troubled childhood. When the story opens, Jack is a child who has been abandoned by his father and living with his mother, a relatively famous tattoo artist. The stage seems set for the sort of quirky characters and situations which Mr. Irving writes so well. But what follows is a lot of stuff we've seen before, and in better Irving books: Jack spends time at an all boys school in Maine, he is a talented member of the wrestling team (in one of the smaller weight divisions), we journey through the Red Light District in Amsterdam not once, but twice. But the books greatest weakness is that none of the characters act or talk like real people. John Irving has always been able to create unusual characters and make them credible. This does not happen here. Almost every woman young Jack meets wants to or does) rape him, every character seems to use the word 'penis' conversationally at least a dozen times and Jack Burns is the center of every other character's existence, no matter how trivial his contact with those characters has been. Hardly anything seems to be credible. Jack's movies (which sound dreadful) are all successful, his companion Emma's novel (which sounds unreadable) is a huge hit. The sequence at the Academy Awards comes off as terribly self indulgent. Stay away from this book. As Billy Rainbow might say, it blows, and not in a good way.
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