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[09:43] The Water Method Man - Rating *** (3/5)
Date: 7/25/05 at 5:43PM
This one was sitting on the shelf of my flat when I moved in and that was all the motivation I had to pick it up. I actually started reading it last weekend but then I got Harry Potter and read that instead so this weekend I finished it off (it's great not having TV or internet access :)
A bloke by the name of John Irving wrote this, he is also the man behind the book The World According to Garp which I have not read but I've seen the cover for a movie based on it - that is possibly useless information.
Anyway, I really enjoyed The Water Method Man - it could be the whole vouyeristc nature of the book or it could be that I really wanted to know what happened to the Fred "Bogus" Trumper, the poor bastard who is the stories anti-hero. The boko traipses gaily through his life for a few years from the start of his thesis to "now", revolving around urinary tract problems, his relationship problems with family and his eclectic collection of friends, the pitfalls or Old Low Norse and manages to hide some rather insightful little gems in amongst the humour and pathos.
There was nothing ground-breaking here, no epic stories set against dramatic backdrops - just the story of a man whose faults many will find familiar I suspect. I'll be keeping an eye out for more books by Mr Irving.