The Hotel New Hampshire

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• New Mortality

  One of the genuinely eerie moments in the recent huge and hollow film about a huge and hollow hotel, The Shining, comes in the late shot where we get a glimpse inside one of the rooms that should be empty, and see some sort of human bear, or person i ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

• Reservations

  I was decidedly a late-comer to The World According to Garp. Over-urged by enthusiasts in the summer of 1978, I became resistant and did not even make a start on the novel until it had appeared in its rainbow assortment of paperbacks. Then I had trou ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

3 Reviews

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  I remember reading this book while I was at the hospital. I started it at 10 a.m. and I was done with it at 10 p.m.
  In the meanwhile, I had gone outside for a couple of hours because I was liking the novel so much that I felt kind of exhilarated, and I needed some fresh air and some time to pu ... (continue)

  I remember reading this book while I was at the hospital. I started it at 10 a.m. and I was done with it at 10 p.m.
  In the meanwhile, I had gone outside for a couple of hours because I was liking the novel so much that I felt kind of exhilarated, and I needed some fresh air and some time to put between me and this very peculiar story. I have to say I loved this book immediately. I loved the plot, I loved the characters, I loved the way their story was told.
  It is rare for a book to make you laugh and cry at the same time, yet I distinctly remember that when a certain character dies in the weirdest way, I was laughing out loud and at the same time tears were rolling down my face, because a character I had loved was going to leave me...
  No other book by John Irving affected me so much and although I liked the others I read, they lacked the special "touch" I felt in this novel, not even his most famous The house cider's rules or whatever it's named (I read it in Italian ages ago and now I can't remember the title properly)
  Hope someone will want to read this book, and will love it as much as I did years ago...

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  Miss Piggott said on Aug 1, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  My thoughts

  Like other Irving books I've read, this one was both funny and sad as well as quirky at times. The story kept me engaged as I wanted to find out what happens next to Franny, John, Frank, Lilly, Egg, etc.

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  krin5292 said on Dec 13, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  Strange, but intriguing and compelling, as I often find of Irving.

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  sid_rw said on Jun 30, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 432 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 034540047X
• ISBN-13: 9780345400475
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Pub date: Aug 30, 1995
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 645 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Česká kniha

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