lunabee34

All-Johns No Janes Allowed? Heh.

Oh, HNH is great, yeah. I actually liked Garp a lot when I was younger, altho I wouldn't call it my favourite book, and what I really liked were Jenny and Roberta and Ellen, Garp really not so much, and the Pension Grillparzer story was great. And then it went into Grand Guignol (sp) territory with the car accident AND everything after it, and was much less interesting. I think I saw the movie first, and John Lithgow and Robin Williams and Glenn Close were all great. But that book was ABSOLUTELY unavoidable in the eighties, I remember a supermarket paperback display (remember supermarket MMMPB displays?) which had a rainbow of that book, same font with different cover colours.

But that book is so weird. One of the first positive portrayals of a transsexual in AmLit ever! .....and the radical feminists in it are all nuts. And the rape survivor who 'inspires' them rejects them utterly. NICE ONE, IRVING.