The World According to Garp
by John Irving · first published 1979
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"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe (RIP). One of my all time favorite book, one of my all time favorite authors. "The World According to Garp" by John Irving. Again, one of my favorite authors, one of his best books, but I really recommend almost all of his books. "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein. Just read this a couple weeks ago,…
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗The World According to Garp by John Irving. To me, it's the perfect tragi-comedy. Gotta have a bit of both.
on “Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?” ↗The Bible. Harold Bloom's "Western Canon", Knausgaard's "Min Kamp", "The World According to Garp", Robertson Davies Deptford Triology, "Anna Karenina", "Consilience of Knowledge", "House of Leaves" "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" All these books messed me up to varying degrees.
on “Ask HN: What is the most influential not-technology book(s) you have ever read?” ↗…Strangelove"; "To Kill A Mockingbird"; "The Little Prince"; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; "Lord of the Flies"; "Charlotte's Web"; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; "All Quiet on the Western Front"; "The World According to Garp"; "Invisible Man"; "Flowers for Algernon"; "Sophie's Choice"; "The Road"; "All the Light We Cannot See"; "The Goldfinch"; "Atonement"; "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
on “Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize” ↗…writing quality (a favorite anecdote of mine is how John Irving attempted repeatedly to get one of the short stories attributed to the fictional Garp published, only to get rejected over an over; in The World According to Garp, the short story in question was rejected, and John Irving had written a rejection letter for it. In the end he substituted one of the actual rejection letters for it. The short story went on to win a…
on “Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers” ↗…do. I exercised that right as a student, and I would like other students to be able to do the same. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_Choice_(novel) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp
on “Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans” ↗…too. I entered Blood Meridian, Barbarian Days and The Cider House Rules. I got The Road -> Same Author as Blood Meridian and I guess Mccarthys most mainstream successful book? Barbarian Days -> ??? The World according to Garp -> Same author as Cider House The Devil in the White City and The house on Mango Street are the two recommendations I don't know which also don't seem too obvious. But on first look both books don't…
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