Title: Until I Find You
Author: John Irving
©: July 12, 2005
 
I've read almost everything that John Irving has written.  This is not his best book, nor is it his worse.  The beginning and end are quite a bit slower than the middle.  You almost wonder if he has lost his way when he starts the third section of the book.  And I was disappointed in the ending.  But endings are extremely difficult to write.

All that said, I frequently found myself mesmerized, unable to put the book down.  I recommend this book, though behind his best books.  And I recommend it far more than I can recommend most contemporary books that I have read.

This book turns in ways that you do not anticipate and yet not in absurd, contrived ways.  I am sure that there is much here that I missed.  Still, I would read four of his other books first.