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From: rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban)
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Subject: Re: Re: THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 08:16:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 08:16:19 1984
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	What did I think of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP? Well, I read the book
first and found it rather abundant on contrivance and short on subtlety. It had
some funny moments and some moving ones, but all in all I thought that the
acclaim and hoopla surrounding it to be unjustified. I thought that the film
adaptation by George Roy Hill was very good, by which I mean it elevated a
rather coarse story to an entertaining, richer film.
	It was about this time, however, that the brutality and sadism that
Irving likes to impose on his characters started to seem obscene to me, and I
quickly decided that his new novel would not be at the top of my reading list.
The plot of THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE turned out to be more of the same, as I 
feared, and I found that Tony Richardson's treatment of the material was more
or less a wallowing in the basest vulgarities of Irving's novel.

						---Rick Urban
						   AT&T Network Systems
						   Columbus, Ohio