Talk:A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Just a comment, and it may not be relevant to the entry: but wasn't much of this book, or at least the character of Owen Meany, based on Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum? They both prominently feature small-statured individuals as the central character, who have a idiosyncratic voices, who work as stone cutters and have crushes on older women. I'm not sure how much criticism has been brought to bear on this aspect, but if it is significant, it might be worth mentioning. Keen Machine 15:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spoiler warnings
This article needs spoiler warnings. I'm in the middle of reading this novel and I didn't want to know that Owen died, not that it was hard to guess that, but I still didn't want to be told that. --67.190.54.4 10:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
You retard, I avoided the plot section intentionally, but had a question about another section, so came to the discussion page. Yet you still managed to spoil part of the book for me. Like it was really necessary to have a spoiler in your comment? Good job *thumbs up* Jesus Christ, I hate stupid people.
- So, what was the question? - Caswin 19:29, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Ok apparantly there are a great may fools out there so I will use as many small words as I can. Them saying that Owen inisisted that he knew the time and method of his death does not necessarily count as a spoiler. Does it say how he died, no. Does it say anything other than the basic circumstances that the book gives fairly early in the story, no. Does it mention in what way the 3 interweaving stories combine for his death, again no. If your saying that its a spoiler because it says he is going to die then I want you to close the book and look at the cover. The book is called A Prayer for Owen Meany and many copies it is a closeup of engraved granite. Just the title alone on the granite told me he was going to die in the book. Now stop your complaining and read. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.14.203.32 (talk) 05:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
