A Prayer For Owen Meany was an exception. As I work my way through the Top 100 BBC Reads, fewer titles are familiar, thus I go to friends, family and fellow bloggers for suggestions that they might think I’ll enjoy. Since beginning my blog, I’ve begun to rely heavily on others for book recommendations. A Prayer For Owen Meany is one of those rare finds.
And for me, there are few things better in life than reading an utterly, utterly amazing book, which stays with you a long while after the final page. There have been low points as well as high I certainly haven’t enjoyed all of the books I’ve read as part of the challenge, but the positives of such a challenge certainly outweigh the negatives. I’ve previously spoken about the many books I may never have read, were it not for the fact that I was working my way through some of the best novels ever written. Irving currently lives in Toronto.When I first challenged myself to reading the Top 100 BBC Reads, little did I know what was in store. he won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. John Irving is a bestselling author whose works include The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, The Last Chairlift, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Watch out for people who call themselves religious make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! Never confuse faith, or belief-of any kind-with something even remotely intellectual. If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys-best friends-are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
Audiobook Length: 27 hours and 19 minutes
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