The one line that brought Helen Fields fortune and continuous repeated throughout this novel, it started off like any typical John Irving novel. If you're read enough (1 or 2 would suffice really) of his work, you'd be aware of how unconventional his story tends to be. And this wasn't going to be an exception.
A little something that made me draw a parallel with Tolstoy's (un)happy family
story. Would a marriage certainly help in getting one to progress ahead? I'd think that it causes more problems or roadblocks on the path to success.
I suppose if you are lucky, you may just end up with someone that you love and have fantastic sex with.
The book is about an unwitting feminist writer who took a controversial path in her desire to have a child and how the family develops.
As always, Irving's characters are colorful and have non-traditional backgrounds. The main difference in this book as compared to his others (that I've read so far) was how there were few chapters dedicated to the character's story. Story of like a story in a story, Inception if you may. At times, the book did feel like a rather mediocre attempt of a book. But this is indeed one of Irving's earlier books which was also adapted into a movie.
Remember what people say about doing something with the end in mind?
Sometimes, even in the strongest of couples, there will be testing times throughout the marriage. So, how does marriage eases thing forward again?
I don't know about you but as a full bodied/blood woman, I don't ever feel like beating the shit out of someone. If anything, I always do that it's almost second nature to me :"D
When cracks start to appear in the relationship, infidelity reared its ugly head with a rather sickening but humorous end.
Sometimes, some people tend to wonder how much is what's written on the Internet is true. Does this answer you?
~ Mar - Mothman Prophecies
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