7/5/2023 0 Comments The world according to irving![]() All the women were headstrong and withering and the main female characters hardly varied from each other except in age. The characters might have seemed fresher in a shorter book, but we're just clichés in this as they hardly seemed to evolve, despite the long period of their lives the book covered. Initially I did not mind him, but his sardonic tone soon sounded less worldly, and more fashionably cynical in a rather childish, petty way. It made have been made worse by the reader. the 'Ellen James' movement in the book, which is an extreme parady on women's relationship with victimhood and is deeply annoying as it is not insightful, but merely shows the character Garp's own bias, and since his perspective seems to be never far from the writers, shows the writer's bias also. The author had some moderate sympathy with 70s feminists but was under the misapprehension this gave him a deep insight into women and the female perspective which he clearly doesn't have. May have had some originality in moderation but in it's great length got annoying, then tedious. ![]() ![]() Sounded like it would be reliably funny and original. ![]() This book showed some promise at the start. ![]()
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