Originally Posted by CraigB

Being an architect, I really enjoyed The Devil in the White City, too.

I love all of Irving's books, with the possible exception of the couple that were pre-Garp. If you haven't read it, you might try his sort-of memoir, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. It's really very good.

Many years ago, I read Owen Meany aloud to my wife, complete with what I thought his (Meany's) voice would sound like. I was especially fond of using that voice to repeat ad nauseum the line "Your mother has the best breasts of all the mothers." Several years later, Irving was here in Indy, speaking at a library event, and during the Q&A someone asked him if he could do the voice of Owen Meany. My wife and I just about fell out of our chairs when he made the same exact voice that I did, and used the same exact line to demonstrate it!