Or the part where someone talks about this dashing young man running for President, and how the country can’t be swept away by his charisma because experience is what really counts. Sound familiar? He was talking about Reagan. Like the part where Owen’s friend John, gets on a rant about how the President’s a jerk and needs to be impeached, and if he’s stupid enough to let other people tell him what to do he still needs to be impeached. I’ve already returned this book to the aunt I borrowed it from, but there were some great quotes in there that made me, a relative newcomer to any knowledge of politics, realize how little things actually change. But even that got explained to my satisfaction. There was one section where he seemed to act like a jerk, and he almost lost me. John Irving did a great job of tying up all the seemingly disparate threads at the end. But once I got to the end, I realized that everything was essential, even what I thought were tangents. It was finally about 100 pages longer than my attention span for the story.
The book just seemed to get longer and longer.
This came awfully close to being a 3 star read for me. But Owen has faith that God made him the way he is because he has a Higher Purpose to fulfill. Almost freakishly small, and with a terrible voice, he is huge on faith, but not so crazy about religion.
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