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In case you're looking for a great novel to read, I will share my favorite book of all time: A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. I have read this novel a half a dozen times over the past few decades, and I cry at the end EVERY SINGLE TIME. Beautifully written, with great characters...
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every single time i read it i end up bawling. it's been my favorite for a long long time
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One of my all time favorite books and I would sell my kidneys to read it for the first time.
“Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last? since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, hélas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty—they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty; you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.” He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. “You play it safe long enough,” he said, in a different tone, “and you’ll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me.”
I cried for 2 days straight after reading this.. TWO DAYS!!
My favorite excerpt from the entire book. James Baldwin is a genius and may his heavenly soul rest in peace.
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