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Gorky Park is the only one on these lists that I've read. I soured on Irving after The World According to Garp, which I thought was too precious and over-rated. Better than Tom Robbins, but that's not saying a lot in my estimation.*
* "Personal Preference Only" alert From ashley21's library I'll pick The World According to Garp by John Irving. Never read any of his work so I guess this would be a good place to start. Ok I just ordered The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany online, thanks for the advice, I'll let you know how I get on with them!
Jessuncw, I definitely agree with you re In Cold Blood, it was no mean feat to explore the minds of serial killers without disrespecting the ... ... a good book. Not one of my favorites though. It was boring in some parts. John Irving is a great writer though. I did love The World According to Garp.
I would say, Bookbugg, you should read According to Garp first if it was your first Irving novel. That book is the reason I like Irving so ... I thought the film version of The World According to Garp was excellent but yes, overall most of the others fall short!
I'm pretty sure the sequel to Hummingbird won't be out until next spring! My LT name is based upon one of my favorite novels of all time: The World According to Garp The World According to Garp by John Irving Read years ago after seeing the movie. The World According to Garp by John Irving Category 8: Favorite Authors
1. The World According to Garp by John Irving
2. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
3. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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Last week I bought Confederacy of Dunces and The World According to Garp for my boyfriend. Confederacy is one of my favorite books too (and he really enjoyed as well--plowed through it in just a few days). I also bought The Hour I First Believed for myself, which I'm currently reading.
I ... ... Jane Eyre
(7) The Life of Pi
(8) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(9) Treasure Island
and (10) I haven't read The World According To Garp yet, but I did read another really good Irving book A Prayer For Owen Meany, so that is my indirect 10th suggestion.
-- M1001
... different tastes we all have. I really loved A Prayer for Owen Meany thought it was Irving's best, closely followed by The World according to Garp ... (pre-tagged, of course). For example, I was looking at the tag page for 'wrestling' and noticed several books (such as The World According to Garp that I know I have, but I haven't added to LT yet. If I could just click and add them to my library, my LT collection would grow by leaps and ... 111: I've read and loved A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp, which is why I was so disappointed that I didn't love The Cider House Rules. I believe Irving has flashes of brilliance, but isn't a very consistent writer. It's why I understand when people say they have a ... ... A Prayer for Owen Meany, but I absolutely adored it. I've been meaning to read some of Irving's other novels, such as The World According to Garp, but Owen Meany was such a dense, intricate read for me that I've wanted to make sure that I have the appropriate amount of energy to expend on ... >111 aliay: I loved the earlier John Irving - Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules and some others I'm not remembering. His more recent stuff has left me cold. ... Cider House Rules
The Lover
Empire of the Sun
The Piano Teacher
The Name of the Rose
A Bend in the River
The World According to Garp
The Shining
The World According to Garp by John Irving; a favorite, read ages ago... ... of PlayGramma) like that!
I couldn't live without these:
Dianetics
The Joy of Sex
Fear of Flying
The World According to Garp
Steroids
120 Days in Sodom
Dogs Rule!
See, I Told You So
Gone With The Broken Wind
sTORI Telling
I think Kurt Vonnegut stands alone in the way he wrote, but here are some other ideas:
1. The World According to Garp by John Irving
2. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
3. Willard and his Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
4. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ... The World According to Garp? Finished Heart of Darkness last week and am now reading The World according to Garp. ... list:
Plainsong by Haruf, Kent
The House of Spirits by Allende, Isabel
The Blind Assassin by Atwood, Margaret
The World According to Garp by Irving, John
Breathing Lessons by Tyler, Anne
Rabbit, Run by Updike, John
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
... ... which is well over 1000 pages), so this may change! I was just reading descriptions of The Hotel New Hampshire and The World According to Garp and they both sound like they're up my alley! I'm going to have to check them out next time at the library. ... of "classic Irving" that still has a similar feel to Until I Find You, i would highly suggest The Hotel New Hampshire, The World According to Garp, or A Widow For One Year. The Hotel New Hampshire and The World According to Garp are two of my favorite books, so i'm a bit biased.
of ... I've FINALLY finished The World According to Garp! I feel the need for fanfares, confetti and perhaps a small parade.
I'm now reading Jason Donovan's autobiography becuase I know it won't take long or be too taxing on my brain. I'll then read a proper book. Sorry Jason, if you're reading... ... by Paul Neilan
-Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
-Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
-The World According to Garp by John Irving
-A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Also have to agree with those who said Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ... embarrassing gap in your reading?
Classics - Prefer contemporary reading
23) What is your favorite novel?
The World According to Garp by John Irving or The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - I can't decide
24) Play?
The Man of La Mancha
25) Poem?
"Anna ... ... Bible, and Winnie the Pooh.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Current: The World According to Garp, Last: The Rotters' Club, Next: The History of Now (from bib) and Elegy for Easterly (ER).
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Hi ... Garp
"But of course education gets in the way of stuff like that"
yeah, stupid education getting in the way of pop pseudo-science... bah! ... rson
When the Lilacs Bloom by Susan Kirby
An Eye for An Eye by Joseph Telushkin
Undue Influence by Steve Martini
The World According to Garp by John Irving
They are all hard back so I am quite pleased with them. I have more to add later because I stopped by the library to browse ... The World According to Garp
Yep, still reading The World According to Garp... Welcome to this group, damfino83.
Oh, to be reading The World According to Garp for the first time! It's a wonderful novel and my favorite John Irving book.
I'm still only about 80 pages in to the book I started weeeeeeeeks ago (The world According to Garp). It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I can't seem to settle. Ho hum. ... asia Phaic Tan or central europe Molvania, both by a couple of Australian comedians.
For something from the US, The world according to Garp comes to mind. I also read The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules and did not like either, but I loved A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's anything but cutesy! :o) > 175 BF I tried to read The World According to Garp many years ago. It sounded like it would be really good and for me, it wasn't. I gave up on it. I have been seduced by the raving of my LT freinds to try a Prayer for Owen Meany. I have a horrible feeling that it will go the way of Garp!
-T ... ... worth, I agree with #168 and #174. I have not read APfOM, and I do not intend to, but it must be one heck of a book to beat The World According to Garp--and forget the Robin Williams movie of it. ... The 158-Pound Marriage, although I was fairly glued to the pages while reading all three.
ETA: I'm still going to give The World According to Garp a try, but after that I'm done. ... one just invited me to continue, so I'll also try to read A Prayer for Owen Meany. My friend also highly recommended me The World According to Garp and some other books of Irving. So, I'll just try to find them and try to find enough time to read more of his works ;) ... to you.
It is one of my top three books of all time.
While I could not relate to Irving's earlier works, such as The World According to Garp, others are wonderfully crafted and as you mentioned, simple and clear.
... about your accident. Glad you weren't too seriously hurt, but sorry for the injuries you do have.
I'm trying to read The World According to Garp. I really like John Irving, but my reading seems to be on a go-slow at the mo. Hrmph. ... McEwan
90. Oranges are not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
91. The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
92. The World According to Garp John Irving
93. Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
and the 1800's
94. The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
95. Dracula ... The World According to Garp
The Wrong Box
Wuthering Heights
Zardoz
Zorba the Greek
Whew! 'All done!
;) The whole thing was a love story. It was a love story of friendship, and it was brilliant.
Garp was celebration of perpetual male adolescence
Cider House Rules was a good story, but not as emotionally committing.
It was as though Irving finally achieved adulthood and then wrote Owen M ... ... it is incredible clunky in presenting themes and characters. (My general opinion of Irving is that he wrote one great book, The World According to Garp - everything leading up to were rough drafts on that novel's themes, everything since then has been too structured to be fully successful).
En ... ... no particular order:
Fight Club
Atonement
No Country for Old Men
Oil!
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The World According to Garp
Cider House Rules
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
House of Sand and Fog
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Corelli's Mandolin
Chocolat
Bl ... How about 'Walt Catches a Cold' from The World According to Garp, the title of the chapter where Garp's 5-year-old dies. ... reading from and discussing his work. The titles included are The 158-pound Marriage, The Hotel New Hampshire, and The World According to Garp.
The video seems to be titled simply "John Irving" and was produced in 1983 by Elia Katz, produced by Randy Cohen. Distributed through Broadw ... 16 > I read A Prayer for Owen Meany a couple of years ago myself. I hesitated to do so, since when I tried to read The World According to Garp I thought it was insane and quit after the car-crash-in-the-driveway scene. But a couple of people I worked with at the bookstore loved APfOM, and I ... ... Earth
In the Woods by Tana French
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
You like John Irving, try World According to Garp & A Prayer for Owen Meany
There are so many, I could go on for hours, but enjoy and good luck! Ages ago! Creepy.
Can't believe this one hasn't been done, but based on the list at the start of the post....
The World According to Garp anyone? National Book Award
1. A Fable by William Faulkner
2. The World According to Garp by John Irving
3. Waiting by Ha Jin
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9. From appydo1 I would choose The World According to Garp by John Irving. It's been on my tbr list for a decade at least, and since Irving is one of my favorite authors, it's simply inexcusable that I haven't read it yet. EX: The World According to Garp, Out Stealing Horses, The Iliad, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, The Wasp Factory, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Moon and Sixpence, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Sun King ... ON BOOKS TO TEACH
Rebecca, thanks for adding to the list. I'd forgotten about A Prayer for Owen Meany. I've taught The World According to Garp once, and it was quite successful. A few of the students had bought and started in on other Irving novels before the end of the semester.
At ... ... use contemporary literature instead of just sticking to the classics. Here are a few I'd recommend.
Male authors:
The World According to Garp or A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson--there's tons of great material there, and it would be ... The World According to Garp (#275) ***½
by John Irving
11/03/08
Out Stealing Horses ***½
by Per Petterson
11/04/08 Hi
I agree with your comments regarding The World According to Garp. I'm glad this wasn't the first John Irving book I read or I would not have read some of his others -- which are stellar. If you haven't read A Prayer for Owen Meany, you might want to try this. It is one of my favorite ... 81) The World According to Garp by John Irving
Just didn't do it for me the way Cider House Rules did. Wonderful writing but the whole first part just dragged for me. ... May Alcott, especially Eight Cousins, Nathaniel Hawthorne. especially Blithedale Romance
New Hampshire -- The World According to Garp by John Irving
Maine -- The Beans of Maine by Carolyn Chute and Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Mr TQD loves The World According To Garp, so I really must read that one!! And I've got a copy of The Cider House Rules on the TBR pile. I've also heard good things about The Hotel New Hampshire.
So I haven't given up on Irving, just on The 158-Pound Marriage. :)
Enjoying Tinker in ... ... Marriage many years ago and couldn't get into it, ditto for Setting Free the Bears -- but I did enjoy Irving's The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and especially The Cider House Rules (all of which I think I read before seeing the film adaptations) ... Clark
2. The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
3. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
4. Coronado by Dennis Lehane
5. The World According to Garp by John Irving
6. Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwwartz
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8. No Place Like Home by ... ... auss
A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes
The World According to Garp by John Irving
... Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, or even Fear and Loathing? I grew out of my drug stage years ago. And if I hold onto Garp, Owen Meany, and The Hotel New Hampshire, there's really no particular spark in the rest of Irving's work. I can reason my way through every decision.
But ... Just finished:
Sense and Sensibility
The Age of Innocence
Amsterdam
Next up:
Rebecca
The World According to Garp
The Count of Monte Cristo 1) Atonement by Ian McEwan
The rest is in no particular order;
The World According to Garp John Irving
The Invisible Wall : a Love Story That Broke Barriers Harry Bernstein
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Helen Fielding
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chealier ... 6. Books by Favourite Authors:
1. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver - Currently reading
2. The World According to Garp - John Irving
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Owen is on Mt. TBR, but I haven't got to it yet. I recently realized that Owen Meany and Garp were both written by John Irving... shock! ... my top fifteen list would definitely include Candide, A Confederacy of Dunces, Straight Man, Cold Comfort Farm and The World According to Garp and My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber, Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym, any of Wodehouse's Jeeves or Blandings Castle novels, Martha ... Just finished The World According to Garp and am about to start reading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The weather is so hot that I can't really consentrate, so I need something light and amusing to read. 30) The World According to Garp by John Irving
I have only ever read one other Irving book and that was The Fourth Hand, which I did not like. Therefor I was hesitant to read another one, but decided to give him one more shot since I've heard many great things about this novel. I'm glad I ... Whichever one it is it's brilliant. Not Garp? ... - G. G. Marquez
11. The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
12. The color purple - Alice Walker
13. The world according to Garp - John Irving
14. The hour of the star - Clarice Lispector
15. Sula - Toni Morrison
16. One hunderd years of solitude - G. G. Marquez
1 ... ... said! In just finished this book today and loved it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Started reading The World According to Garp by John Irving, I have barely cracked it open, but so far it seems like a good read. ... Bonfire of the Vanities (218)
6. Beloved (223)
7. The Handmaid's Tale (242)
8. The Color Purple (272)
9. The World According to Garp (303)
10. Fear of Flying (341)
11. Slaugterhouse-Five (375)
12. Portnoy's Complaint (378)
13. The Godfather (379)
14. Myra Breckin ... Just came home from the library with
The World According To Garp by John Irving
Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
Atonement by Ewan McEwan
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason by Helen Fielding The World According to Garp by John Irving ... 384 Pages
9. Remember me? - Sophie Kinsella 400 Pages
10. Sunshine and Showers - Rosie Harris 432 Pages
11. The World According To Garp - John Irving 624 Pages
12. At Sixens and Sevens - Rosie Harris 416 Pages
13. Turn of the Tide - Rosie Harris 512 Pages
14. Rosie Dunn ... The World According to Garp by John Irving. #47 Thanks a lot, clam! Now I'm going to dream about a device that does what Garp's wife did to a certain grad student. Just knocked of no. 14: The World according to Garp thanks to the Easter holiday and me being sick for the past couple of days. It was interesting enough to finish all 600 pages, but it won't be on my all time favorites list. Still, it's nice to finally have read such a well known book.
Current ... I just finished The World according to Garp which with 600 pages nicely balances all the short stories and short books I read just to make a little headway ^^ I have to say I enjoyed it, but it won't be on my all time favorites list. ... for the past couple of days, I've made excellent progress on my reading (what can I say, I'm an optimist ^^). I finished The World according to Garp in no time. It was interesting enough for me to finish the 600 pages, but it isn't one of my all time favorites. Still, one classic down :)
I' ... The World According to Garp
and I almost finished it only because I was so desperate for anything to read. finally I couldn't take it anymore. ... Louis Stevenson **½
4. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway **
5. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan ***½
6. The World According to Garp by John Irving ***½
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ****½
8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ****
Extra Credit: Spi ... Currently reading The world according to Garp which is pretty entertaining so far.
Also still reading Far from the madding crowd for my on-line book. Started reading The World according to Garp last night. Don't know what to think of it yet as I seem to have barely made a dent in it.
Also still reading Far from the madding crowd on-line which I'm enjoying, but which also will take me some time to finish I guess. ... read next at home as I have a few books waiting for me that I'm pretty excited about. Thinking about Kafka on the shore, The world according to Garp or maybe Anansi Boys. *sigh* Decisions, decisions... :) ... the movie either before I read the book or long after. Otherwise the movie will disappoint. I loved the movie version of The World According to Garp and even after having read the superior novel, I still like the movie.
On the other hand, after reading The Cider House Rules I immediately ... The World According To Garp by John Irving The World According to Garp by John Irving - if you've never read it before. It's not a new book, but his best IMO. My daughter liked A Prayer for Owen Meany ,also by John Irving, better. Have you read either or both of them yet?
If you like Wally Lamb, have you read She's Come Undone ... Just finished A Christmas Carol which I quite enjoyed. I'm thinking of reading The World according to Garp next. ... I prefer the memory of love to the potential of disappointment. Why set myself up?
Paradise Lost
The Faerie Queen
The World According to Garp
The Hawkline Monster
Still Life with Woodpecker
I'm sure there are more The World According to Garp by John Irving ... hand shop. But then they had this 3 for 10 euros deal...
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The world according to garp by John Irving
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing which I don't think is actually on the list ... ... ntures
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
Parent Child Relationships
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Amy & Isabel - Elizabeth Strout
Suicide
The Pact - Jodi Piccoult
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eug ... ... you know what I mean. Either that or more action haha. But I did enjoy the characters and events throughout the book.
The World According to Garp was great. At first I didn't think I would like it, but as Garp grew older, i became attached to him and his family and all the madness that ... The World According to Garp by John Irving ... heee!
Looking through your list, I see you liked John Irving enough to read two of his better books. Have you read The World According to Garp yet? If not, do so, it's a thrilling, emotional read like no other! ... in love with as I read them.
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
I've read three:
The Great Gatsby
The Stand
The World According to Garp
TBR pile (15 books deep):
Catch 22
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm ... Judging by Terrorist, Updike should stick to his sex life.
Irving is not a great novelist, he produced one great novel, The World According to Garp, and everything else was either building up to that work, or an attempt to recapture the 'magic' of it.
... the first that come to mind:
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Stand by Stephen King
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... more entertaining, not sure what yet, Cesar is pretty lively, though. As far as the previously mentioned books, such as, World according To Garp,Cider House Rules,and Prayer For Owen Meany, I enjoyed all of them. I love John Irving, his characters are all so quirky. I really enjoyed T ... I loved The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and The World According to Garp, but I've found Irving hit and miss since Meany. I never could read A Son of the Circus, but I liked (but didn't love) A Widow for One Year. I had high hopes for Until I Find You, but the reviews put ... ... of my favorite books. I am actually thinking of re-reading it soon and I very rarely re-read anything. I remember reading The World According to Garp and not really liking it - perhaps I should give that another go as well. I have both The Cider House Rules and one other John Irving book ... #28 I feel the same way about Irving and Roth (although I liked The World According to Garp best--but I read it many years ago). I tried to read Irving's newest, semiautobiographical novel, Until I Find You, but just couldn't get into it. John Irving really isn't my cup of tea. I gave him 3 chances...A Widow for One Year, Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp. I had problems with all of the books. It was a few years ago but I remember the characters creeped me out and I had a hard time finding any sort of redeeming ... a little late on the Irving posts, but... as a big fan, highly recommend Prayer for Owen Meany, Garp, Cider House and many others... but after Four Hands or whatever I got tired of the same book over and over, I couldn't even finish, and don't remember a word of, Unitil I Find You...
that ... >7 Oh, do give some of his earlier work a try. Especially The World According to Garp or Cider House Rules or A Prayer for Owen Meany. Everything by John Irving, especially Hotel New Hampshire I only read beyond World According to Garp because I hoped I would see what everyone was raving about. Nope.
Also, The Hobbit Couldn't get into even though I tried several times. Years later the movies came out and they left ... ... here is mine:
1. It by Stephen King
2. Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey
3. The Stand by Stephen King
4. The World According to Garp by John Irving 8)
5. Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey
6. The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce
7. Little House on the Prairie by La ... ... them all - but I think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close may prove to be a particular favourite for the year.
26. The World According to Garp by John Irving
This was enjoyable, but I didn't find the characters (or the story) as engaging as Owen Meany.
I'm currently reading th ... ... to discuss that one, or any other Foley books (fiction or non)? I saw a lot of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp influence in Tietam Brown, and I dropped Foley a note with that comment. Sure enough, he wrote back stating that he is a huge Irving fan (a ... Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
126. The World According to Garp by John Irving
The ur-text of Irving novels.
127. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
A gaggle of jejune Microsoft employees break away from Bill's sterile empire to form their own company and build their own lives.
128. The Spanish Character by Bart ... Just returned from a library sale with $8 worth of books, including: The Red Badge of Courage, The World According to Garp, David Copperfield, A Year in Provence, Lost in Translation, Speaking of Journals, Post Capitalist Society, The Great Railway Bazaar, Author, Author, Foe, Nece ... I have heard many mixed reviews about Irving's work. I saw the movie for The World According to Garp a long time ago and loved it so I figured he has to be slightly entertaining. I haven't heard much about The Awakening tho. I think on one thread someone mentioned that it was a powerful book ... The World According to Garp - John Irving (sometime between 87-91) The World According to Garp by John Irving
Watership Down by Richard Adams --> 119 ellevee
I love The Eyre Affair, and all of the Thursday Next books!!
I just finished The World According to Garp. It took me forever to read, but once I had a solid block of time to sit down and get into it, it went by very quickly! Quite enjoyable, brilliant writing.
This ... mrs dalloway by virginia woolf
the world according to garp by john irving
death in venice by thomas mann
as i lay dying by william faulkner
metamorphosis by franz kafka ... by Nicole Krauss is back at the top of my reading list again, after a few weeks of avoiding it. I am in the middle of The World According to Garp by John Irving, and am really enjoying it!
For non-fiction, I'm also reading Underground by Haruki Murakami, Highsmith: A Romance ... ... This Much Is True by Wally Lamb for book club this Thursday! (Why did we assign a 900 page book for book club? :)
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by M.E. Kerr -- which I've barely touched this ... #138 and 139 I recall that I also loved The World According to Garp when I read it what seems like aeons ago. I also saw the movie and enjoyed that too, but it's the book that has stuck with me all these years as being really really good.
If I didn't have so many new-to-me books on my TBR ... ... by Haruki Murakami -- a fascinating series of interviews regarding the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
The World According to Garp by John Irving -- highly recommended, beautifully written, very clever
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker -- ... I've been reading The World According to Garp by John Irving this week, and I love it. It's been sitting on my shelf for over a year now, but for some reason, I never picked it up. I regret that now, since I know that this will be a book that I will want to read and read again.
I'm also ... As of 0000H GMT of June 23, I have completed 30% of the book The World According to Garp by John Irving.
. The world according to Garp by John Irving - loved that book and laughed a lot - not through the sad parts though :( ... Adichie
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Anything by John Steinbeck
The World According to Garp by John Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg ... This week, I am reading The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan), Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell) and The World According to Garp (John Irving).
All three are excellent, but I particularly recommend The Omnivore's Dilemma! If you'd be interested in discussing it, please ... This is a great list of books! I try and read one fiction and one non-fiction book at a time. My current fiction is The World According to Garp (John Irving), and the non-fiction is Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell). I highly recommend both of them!
I do quite like The world according to Garp but that one single book doesn't make Irving a classic, and I haven't read any other book of his which is as entertaining (and some of them are plain boring)
I agree with the fact that Coetzee is much more socially and politically involved, which ... I agree re John Irving - his books are too pat, with the exception of The World According to Garp - but disagree about Coetzee. He is a different writer than Nabokov but equally effective - much more politically and socially engaged.
... one of my favourites. A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules are both fantastic, but my favourite of his is The World According to Garp. Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended to anyone, especially if you liked Owen Meany. Garp is better, and it uses Irving's patented style. ... ... it! Now I'm reading The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke. It reminds me a bit of The World According to Garp, but a much smaller story. Clarke is very perceptive (especially considering that the character is such a doofus). ... Stephen King, you might enjoy one of his favorite authors, John Irving, author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp. Irving, in turn, is highly influenced by Charles Dickens - start with A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings as his favorite ... I'd have a hard time deciding between:
Middlesex
Refuge
House of the Spirits
The World According to Garp
The Poisonwood Bible
Ishmael and My Ishmael
I also love Owen Meaney, it ranks up there close to the top; and it's time to read To Kill a Mockingbird again, it's been ... Wow. I consider myself pretty lucky. I was the youngest and usually the books got passed all around...that was, until The World According to Garp which very uncharacteristically, my mother forbid me from reading as I was only 9. Fortunately, I stayed up later than Mom most nights reading under ... I loved the movie The World according to Garp; I think the book is great but the movie is better. Completed World according to Garp by John Irving this morning, which proved to be an addictive read and worthy of the many plaudits flung at it. Despite the many serious aspects of this novel - rape, parenthood, writing, feminism, to mention but a few - the book moves along at a fair pace, ... ... about Coelho (message 298)...
I picked up a few "must reads" that have been piling up over the years, and John Irving's The World According to Garp is one. Should have known better than to go on a recommendation made by an adolescent friend over a decade ago (sorry Bianca)! I folded at ... ... gifted writer.
Am now reading a book that was sitting in the car and which I grabbed in a hurry as I ran for the train. The world according to Garp by John Irving was not on my immediate reading agenda but due to an immensely long journey brought about by the bad weather, I found myself ... Only two today. Lord Loss by Darren Shan for work purposes and The world according to Garp by John Irving. Bank Manager please note, only one title was bought. I've read and enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale, Siddartha, and The World According to Garp, though they don't quite make it into the "books that changed my life" category. Here are three that I do put in that category:
My Antonia by Willa Cather ~ It was the first "literary classic" I ... >133 & 134
I've had the same experience with John Irving. While I was at uni I met several people who told me that The World According To Garp was the best book that they'd ever read, and when I finally got round to reading it, it was just terrible. I came to the conclusion that that said ... Inspiring books...hmmm..
I would agree that The Handmaid's Tale really stays with you
The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany are really something, just because of the way John Irving writes.
Thats my two pence....
Oh, Birdsong too ... Man (my favorite for the year by far)
2. Complete Hitchhiker's Guide
3. Kitchen
4. Running with scissors
5. The world according to garp ... and it did a much better job of capturing the abject loneliness in space.
The movies of Bonfire of the Vanities and World According to Garp, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil were far inferior to the books- I felt like I was getting the cliff notes. I remember hearing a story ... ... for Owen Meany and A Widow for One Year, or to be more to point, don't look at them. (Although I did like the film of The World According to Garp the book is superior - Irving's best).
Graham Greene is probably the best writer to inspire a number of good films - The Power and the G ... I can relate to the part about seeing the movie first. I saw The World According to Garp when it first came out. I didn't read the book until years later. I didn't really care for the book even though John Irving is one of my favorite writers.
I thought The Hunt for Red October was a ... ... is illuminated, what do I win? Possibly possession of a sphere of chocolat. Or maybe all the pretty horses in the world according to garp. I read the book The World According to Garp many years after watching the movie. I liked the movie better. I was a little let down when reading the book, but it did get me started reading John Irving, which has been a great thing.
I guess I will have to fess up to liking Contact, both ...
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