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The Cider House Rules

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The Cider House Rules

Written by: John Irving
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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 From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.©1985 John Irving (P)1999 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Classics Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological

What the critics say

"Witty, tenderhearted, fervent, and scarifying." ( New York Times Book Review)
"Gardner understands and conveys the book's sly humor and comprehension of human foibles." ( Los Angeles Times)
"John Irving's best novel....He is among the very best storytellers." ( Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Another great John Irving book. His insight and descriptions of growing up and life’s complications always come through.

Wonderfully written as always

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This John Irving novel is one that I read and liked many years ago. I enjoyed the narrator’s story telling voice as it was easy to listen to. The amount of detail is typical of John Irving’s novels and I like that!

A GREAT READ (A Great Listen)

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For me, a memorable audiobook has two components, a good story, and John Irving writes a pretty good missive here, and a good story teller, and Grover Gardner, as the narrator, is an excellent story teller.

Excellent Narration

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Reading this in 2024 after the overturning of roe v wade, and before the USA election, I’m not sure how we’ve come so far, and how it is more likely that we will go backwards. I related to the characters, and will remember them fondly.

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Captivating story. Timeless. Draws you in to the characters and makes you feel like you are on the journey with them.

Timeless

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Grover Gardner is an outstanding narrator. His nearly hypnotic rendering of this novel kept me going when I would have started skimming a print version. Irving's story, characters and prose are top notch but the repitition of phrases and arguments made the last half drag.
Thank you Mr. Gardner.

beautiful writing

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I didn’t love this book. It was long and the story was dull. The narrator has a nice voice but there’s not a lot of difference between the characters.

Meh

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