Ep 227 - The World According to Garp, by John Irving

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Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham, Arts, Podcasts, Comedy

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week we bring you The World According to Garp according to Andrew - we breeze through John Irving’s best-known “middlebrow” novel, touching on its feminist leanings, its surprising progressivism as it regards the transgendered, and both the dark humor and the just-plain-darkness lurking around every corner.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Andrew.
0:42.0	Craig.
0:44.0	So this week here on Overdo a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read,
0:48.4	my name is Craig.
0:49.4	My name is Andrew.
0:53.7	A year ago, Ish on our show, we talked about a prayer for Owen Meeney by John Irving.
1:05.7	In this week, you read what?
1:07.7	The World According to Garb by John Irving.
1:10.3	Funny how that works.
1:11.3	We didn't even plan that.
1:12.3	Yeah, that's about to hold it's another author with the exact same name.
1:15.3	That's really weird.
1:17.3	So thanks Melinda, who's one of our Patreon donors for why we're reading this book for
1:22.6	recommending this book to us.
1:24.6	But I just wanted to say Andrew, so a year ago today, what a crazy year it's been.
1:29.6	Wow, yeah, a lot of stuff has happened.
1:32.6	Cubs, the Cubs.
1:33.6	The Cubs?
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