reading (The Hotel New Hampshire)
Dec. 29th, 2011 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI finished reading "The Hotel New Hampshire" weeks ago, but I haven't managed to sit down and write my review. Generally I like the crazy characters and crazier circumstances of this book. I have to disclose that some of my enjoyment of the book is geographic, my first home as a wee tot was in the town where The Hotel New Hampshire was supposed to exist. My grandparents backyard abutted a field leading to the Dairy School, though we all know that's not what it's called. I like the wandering writing style. The story, likewise, just kind of wanders along, it gets someplace eventually, but plot helix is a better description than plot line. But in the meantime, Irving paints some great images.
If this book were your sole introduction to sex, you'd probably take a vow of chastity. There is a lot of sex and there is love, but rarely do they exist together. Among some of the characters there is great love and sold connection, but it's so utterly understated you have to wonder if the characters realize it exists.
This books has foreshadowing and foretelling. The foretelling is irritating. The story is told mostly in linear fashion, but occasionally Irving decides he has to let you know a critical event happened, not how or any other details just that it happened, about a half chapter in advance of when it will happen. The foreshadowing is a change in tone which readers will quickly pick up on. By the end of the book I felt like Pavlov's dog, only the dog got to anticipate food and I got to anticipate tragedy.
48. John Irving "The Hotel New Hampshire"
If this book were your sole introduction to sex, you'd probably take a vow of chastity. There is a lot of sex and there is love, but rarely do they exist together. Among some of the characters there is great love and sold connection, but it's so utterly understated you have to wonder if the characters realize it exists.
This books has foreshadowing and foretelling. The foretelling is irritating. The story is told mostly in linear fashion, but occasionally Irving decides he has to let you know a critical event happened, not how or any other details just that it happened, about a half chapter in advance of when it will happen. The foreshadowing is a change in tone which readers will quickly pick up on. By the end of the book I felt like Pavlov's dog, only the dog got to anticipate food and I got to anticipate tragedy.
48. John Irving "The Hotel New Hampshire"
