I finished The World According to Garp in two days, which is pretty good considering it is 600 pages. There are a couple of literary elements that are really intruiging about this book. For starters the book covers a tremendous amount of years with a clarity and depth that I have only seen in masterpieces like 100 Years of Solitude and War and Peace so go John Irving. The second was the story within the story element; Garp is a writer and the book contains both a short story he writes and the opening chapter to his final work (40 pages!). The actual content of the novel is very moving, and I found parts very relevant to my life, which made me think that the way Garp works is by playing on the universality of sadness and triumph.
next up is Love In The Time of Cholera
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