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The Hotel New Hampshire

Written by: John Irving
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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 The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.

“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 siblings, 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 (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Funny

What the critics say

“A hectic, gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment.”—Time

“Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world. . . . You must read this book.”—Los Angeles Times

“Spellbinding . . . intensely human . . . a high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity.”—Cosmopolitan
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Forgot how much I loved John Irving. Great trip down memory lane. The worst part was when it was over!

Loved it!

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The narration was great at 1.2 speed. The writing was genius as I expected from the author. The story was a gruesome train wreck ( or more aptly a plane crash). I couldn’t believe what I I was hearing but I couldn’t stop listening! The explicit depiction of teenage rape, teenage sex and insest. Is Irving
a pedo?

A reluctant five stars

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struggling to finish, narrator is dull in telling of the story.
liked the story and love the author

Boring sleepy narrative.

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Spoiler alert - interesting story that kept me absorbed. However, some significant events such as death of the mother & a sibling, rape & suicide were like footnotes; whereas much detail went into the protagonist’s teenage romps with a prostitute & his incestuous infatuation with his sister.

Interesting story about serious issues ..

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Pointless at best, disgusting and disturbing for certain. If this had been the first John Irving novel I had ever experienced I would NEVER had tried another one. One has to wonder about the mind of a person who comes up with this drivel and yet has written beautiful works such as the Cider House, Owen Meaney and Garp. There is so much in this book that is just downright strange and then there is the flip side that is simply revolting. I kept listening because I was being loyal to a dear author. Now I am so confused by the dichotomy that are his bodies of work. Another reviewer wondered whether he was a pedophile at heart. I tend to question his seemingly twisted view of family and sexual boundaries. Sheesh. What a disturbing experience that was. Now I have to try and forget the whole thing.

WHAT did I just listen to?!

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