what kind of name is garp?

no. 59 The World According to Garp

I love seeing Robin Williams in a sedate situation. The man is funny but I can only take him in small amounts. He is restrained and contained, which was the reason I could enjoy this John Irving adaptation. Feminism, lust, fatherhood, death, family, never taking themselves too seriously. I mean castration via car accident? Who can't laugh about that, especially given where they go to recoup!

One thing that I think wasn't covered so well was the topic of celebrity. The assassination would have made more sense if the concept of celebrity was fleshed out. Maybe this was in the book, dunno. There is a certain air of irony in what Jenny and Garp have - how the lack of what one has given the other is made up in their own lives. Fatherhood is a great point in case - Garp has no sense of having a father, he lives in his imagination, yet he appears to be the embodiment of fatherhood. Lust had no relevance in Jenny's life, but Garp's world tumbles due to an abundance.