![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's not funny in the Douglas Adams/British-style, but in the Garrison Keillor style: kinda dead-pan, and deliberate in its humor. The movie was supposed to be funny, as was the book. Nevertheless, it made somewhat of an impression, so 16 years later I decided to go to the source and see what the hype was all about. I put "watch" in quote because I think I was either doing problem sets or grading homework, so I wasn't paying much attention, and only raised my head when someone made a comment about the movie. My first exposure to the novel is from "watching" the movie at the student lounge in my dorm at Cal. That meant that there were no car-seats, no internet, and certainly no Kindles. Now that I've read the book, maybe it's a deliberate decision by John Irving, as the novel is set in a world pre-1970s. As a result, I borrowed the dead-tree copy from the library. I tried to buy a copy of The World According to Garp on my Kindle, but apparently there's no Kindle version. ![]()
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