false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255794539m/11654.jpg 11654 18 Mickey Sabbath, the hero in <i>Sabbath's Theater</i>, the winner of the 1995 National Book Award, makes a concerted effort to be bad. Like Alexander Portnoy, the famously self-abusing character in Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, Sabbath has an appetite for "acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus." But while Portnoy's antics were usually comical and liberating, Sabbath often feels imprisoned by his own acts of self-indulgence. Though his frantic pursuit of sex is a desperate attempt to abate his anxieties about death, it only serves to obliterate any semblance of real life he could have had. 588 1995 Sabbath's Theater total:921|5:266|4:299|3:204|2:114|1:38| 921 3404 1372 108 2 8 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Dec 24 10:10:02 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 10:10:02 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Mon Dec 31 14:09:54 -0800 2007 Sat Jul 21 17:08:41 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 08:59:34 -0700 2007
Mickey Sabbath goes further than any other of Roth's characters. Each time Roth comes to an intersection in this novel, each time he has to decide whether to stop, slow down or accelerate, Roth goes faster. ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jun 20 20:12:27 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:42:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Apr 05 12:41:26 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 12:41:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 06 07:25:47 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 07:35:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 19:06:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:16:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 08:19:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 20:24:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 05 23:42:15 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 23:42:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 14:27:34 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 20:11:29 -0800 2009
The book is well-w...more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Jul 09 17:41:19 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 09:55:02 -0700 2009
Reading this book almost caused a nervous breakdown. Only someone at the height of their powers could have pulled off this story of an aging heterosexual male's long slide into hysteria. The lost mother's voice that haunts him, the fear losing his libido and...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 03:53:26 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 04:36:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 26 11:55:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:59:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 12 11:52:52 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 23 14:04:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:01:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:04:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Dec 18 21:44:53 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 21:46:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 08:38:20 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 20:26:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Aug 05 17:19:37 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 10:30:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 07:58:11 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 07:28:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 12:33:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 21:45:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 11 false false Sat Oct 31 18:01:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 18:04:18 -0700 2009
Q. Why do dogs suck their own dicks?

A. Because they can.

Philip Roth should've been born a dog. Would've saved a lot of paper. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11654