Talk:The Hotel New Hampshire

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This movie is impossible to find without the use of the Internet. I've looked in electronics stores which have every movie and video you could ever think of, and it wasn't there. This is suprising because it stars Jodie Foster and Tim Robbins. I still haven't seen it, and since it appears to be about incest, I don't think I want to anymore. Captain Jackson 04:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

It's not really about incest (and I am no way defending incest), but, yes it does contain it. I'm sure you can still get it from Amazon or Netflix if you want to rent it. — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Memorable Characters 2 Poorly Written Article 3 Added cleanup tag 4 Little Clarification

[edit] Memorable Characters

Strangely, one of the most memorable characters was "Sorrow the Farting Dog."

[edit] Poorly Written Article

This article is extremely poor. It focuses more ONE subplot of the novel, not the main plot. And I fail to understand why the brother being gay and the sister being a dwarf make the main character's attraction to his sister acceptable to them. Granted, it's been a while since I read this book, but I don't remember them ever finding out about the relationship between the character and his sister, nor do I remember the brother being gay. Furthermore, the article ends by referring to it as a film, not a novel, suggesting that the writer has only seen the film.

Then, there's the most glaring error that whoever wrote this refers to the novel as taking place in New Hampshire. The majority of this novel takes place in Vienna, Austria, which is quite a long walk from New Hampshire. This suggests to me that someone actually wrote that section of the article without actually reading the book.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Truthbealiar (talk • contribs).

Nothing on Wikipedia is perfect. If you can, feel free to improve it. — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:32, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Then there is the glaring error that Frecklefoot assumes that it was all written by one person. The thing about wikipedia is that if you find something amiss, you have the option to correct or edit it yourself. - [[User:B]

I didn't make that assumption. That is what Truthbealiar said, who didn't sign his/her post. I just added the signature. I see you didn't sign your post (correctly) either. Use 3 or 4 tildes (~~~ or ~~~~). The latter is preferred, since it also adds a timestamp. I said essentially what you did. — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added cleanup tag

The synopsis needs cleaning up. I don't know why the film is mentioned, for one thing. The prose is florid and very POV.--Anchoress 12:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Little Clarification

John Irving does hint throughout the novel and eventually states that his older brother (Frank Berry) is attracted to men. John Berry (Narrator) and Franny Berry (Sister) eventually end their lust for each other in Chapter 11 titled - Being in Love with Franny; Dealing with Chipper Dove. This novel did partly take in Dairy, New Hampshire but as Truthbealiar said the majority of this novel did take place in Vienna/Austria. In the finishing chapters the novel takes the characters to the Stanhope Hotel in New York.

Jaral0wnzj00 02:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)