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Originally Posted by rickscales
If you'd like my educated opinion on what books everone should read before they die, please listen to me when I tell you to read 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John Irving. It's not fantasy, but it is heartwarming and lifechanging. Fifty years from now, I have no doubt in my mind that it will be taught in high schools because it will by then be considered a masterpiece.
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Actually, it already is.
Good book, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. I actually preferred The World According to Garp. I like Irving, but he has a lot of recurring themes; misogyny, mutilation (often of children), death, quirkiness.
He's no Joyce, Flaubert, Chekov, Dostevsky, Shakespeare or Steinbeck.