Mike loved the movie and watching it for the podcast inspired him to finally read the book. Will Allyson find this John Irving adaptation as insightful and moving as Mike?

Mike read the 40-year anniversary edition of the book where Irving laments about how he hoped this investigation of the imbalance of genders would be a thing of the past, but it is unfortunately as relevant today as it was then...if not more so during this 40th anniversary of the movie now that Roe vs Wade has been reversed.

Mike explores in depth the differences between the 500+ page novel and what didn't make it to the 2 hour 16-minute-long film. He and Allyson also dream cast an HBO Max mini-series version of the novel too. Yeah, obviously they both picked Laverne Cox to play Roberta Muldoon.

The World According to Garp is an examination of gender, gender politics, feminism, radicalism, creativity, identity, parenting, and death. While that may sound daunting and heavy, this is also, at times, a whimsical story.

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