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comment by ooli
ooli  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's have a book thread! What have you been reading?

    can I not get annoying Owen Meany's voice out of my head.

At least, you can hear it.

As would HAVE SAID CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW .

Funny fact: the all-caps was to mimic how the Christ talk in some bible (I have heard)

I read the book in my twenties, twice (which I barely do). Loved it, and still vividly remember a few scene (the Armadillo, and the finger cut).

I can get why you are bored by the book. I dont get the " dislike this book so much" part. Except if the religious theme make you angry. But the theme is not apparent until the very end, and it stay pretty mild.

    -Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

I also loved and read this book in my twenties, which make me guess you're in your twenties, and we must all go through those books :)

    -Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Fun fact: most of the poem are lies. Whitman was not were he said he was (not even close), at the time he said he was. I guess art is just elaborate lying