Ok so The World According to Garp by John Irving is apparently sooooo popular that it was voted as one of the best 100 books of the century by readers ( I will share the list with you in a future post)
I also was at a baby shower and one of the ladies there said that this book was HER favorite book of ALL TIME so I grabbed it from the library.
By the way I LOVE THE LIBRARY. I remember once saying I really don’t borrow a lot of books from the library well now I ONLY read books from the library. The library is like owning thousands and thousands of books!
Anyways back to the book, it was funny and entertaining.
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I am SURPRISED it was voted to be one of the best books or whatever. I mean, it wasn’t bad or anything, it was as I said funny, entertaining and well written and the author is very imaginative but it was not THAT amazing.
So I would not like run to go buy it or anything but it’s a good read non the less.
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You might try “A Prayer for Owen Meany” which is also by Irving. We read it in high school and it was the best thing I was ever made to read for summer reading, LOL. It was funny and memorable, although I can’t really tell you why it was memorable. I guess it struck a chord with me because Owen Meany has a destiny. He even has dreams/premonitions about it, to the point that he does things to try and make it come true. I guess that resonates with me because I have felt like that too–that I am meant to do certain things in my life, and I am sure that they will happen. No doubts.
It’s certainly worth reading for free.
Funny you should mention it, I actually took the book out from the library last week! And then to my utter surprise I found that I had bought a copy (from a book sale for charity) just a month prior to that and I had forgot about it!
Good to hear you liked it , I love John Irvings style.