Book: The Hotel New Hampshire
Author: John Irving
Pages: 432
This is my 60th read for the year
What Amazon says:
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels". So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric silbings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud and playthings of mad fate, they drime on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.
I did not like this book at all. It didn't start out strong, and it got worse from there. I didn't like the characters, the writing, and honestly - any book for me that has a lot of sex and incest in it - it is just not for me. This is my opinion, but I could not get into it. I liked a few of Irvings other books, but this one was not for me.
Stars: 2
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