Subject: Esquire, Irving
From: Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 1997 - 17:10:30 GMT
I wonder if I'm way behind everyone but I just read the "interview"in
Esquire...is that reporter's head BIG or what. How did he end it?-"so
please, dear readers, don't make the same tragic mistake I did by
hunting down JDS and staring at his house for awhile." How many devoted
readers of that magazine regularly read S. or Pynchon or any of the
other literary big names he kept dropping? And wasn't the whole thing
pretty poorly written too? Anyways...
I have actually read most of Irving's stuff, but not Owen Meany,
and like it but there's something about him that makes me not consider
him a great. Maybe it's that things in his books just seem so pat--he
writes about Vienna, New England, wrestling...things that are big parts
of his life. At times his work seems like one big extension of his ego.
But then one of my favorites, Setting Free the Bears, has almost none of
that. (I recommend it very much.) PS I was almost bored silly by Cider
House Rules; anyone else?
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