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Go get this book from the library. It is wry, ironic, witty and moving. However, unless you can bear hours of having your ears assaulted by an inflectionless voice similar to a newsreel narrator's, skip renting this novel.
I tried to listen to the whole thing, got through most of his childhood. But his adult life devolved into so much social deviance that I had to stop.
This is such a great book that I hate to give it a poor rating. But both the narration and the sound quality were awful. If it had't been such a compelling story, I would have stopped after the first chapter.
It's a fun tale that ties itself together like a bow. I read John Irving in High School and it really stuck with me almost 20 years later. It's long but keeps you listening and guessing.
Consistently, hysterically funny. I listened to this book in my car and I think other drivers must have thought I was overcome with some sort of seizure at times, so hard did I laugh.
This book is odd and remarkable! This was my first John Irving book and I am now seeking out everything else he has written. The story is gripping, uncomfortably real, and just wonderful. It's one that will stay with you for a very long time. I was absolutely captured by it and highly recommend it!
I really like John Irving's writing style, so I'll admit to being bias, but I loved this reading. Very detailed, and very accurate to real life. You know the characters as though they are your friends and you go through life with Garp, not just observing it. Irving knows that to understand someone you must obsorb their whole experience, you can't know them without knowing all they have gone through. It always helps when the narrator does a nice job too...
John Irving's novel, _The World According to Garp_, is an excellent book that is masterfully read by Michael Pritchard. The two main personalities in the book, Jenny Fields and the title character, are both incredibly well-developed, eccentric, flawed, and lovable. They may lack a typical sense of humor, but they certainly appeal to one in the hands of Irving. They are supported by a colorful cast, including fiction-within-fiction, and together they will keep you listening long after you planned to. Irving deals with subject matter that is dark and personal and he does so with incredible aptitude and humor. Read this book, read it in its entirety, and you will not be disappointed. (Although you may cry, scream, laugh till you cry, experience surprise, etc, you will not likely feel disappointed with the fiction itself.)
This is one of the strangest damn books I've ever read/heard. It kept me listening and was very enjoyable.
This is one of the strangest damn books I've ever read/heard. It kept me listening and was very enjoyable.
John Irving is the author of numerous novels for adults, including "A Widow for One Year, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany," and "The World According to Garp," He lives in Vermont and Toronto.