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    <body><![CDATA[Whew. This book (which is actually three novels and a novella) is very very long. Nathan Zuckerman is (in <em>The Ghost Writer</em>) a young novelist having dinner at the home of his idol; (in <em>Zuckerman Unbound</em>) an author who suddenly becomes famous and rich at the expense of exposing family secrets and impl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36687598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Look, <u>The Ghost Writer</u> is brilliant. An extremely insightful and provoking book on what it means to be a writer - and a reader, a father and a son, having influences and influencing others, positively or negatively. There's no real story but everything is tied up neatly, poignantly.<br/><br/>Now, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44203302">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It all started when I grabbed Exit Ghost from the new fiction section in the lobby of the library I work in.  The only other Philip Roth books I've read are Plot Against America and Operation Shylock. In both of those, the narrator is &quot;Philip Roth.&quot;<br/><br/>Exit Ghost is narrated by Nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40395369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've tried to read this book seven times. I liked him better when he was young and horny. As an adult, I find him pretentious and overrated. And of course, he has an M.A. which explains the abundance of his work. I hate advanced degrees!! They give a free pass in the publishing world to people who p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56743599">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Zuckerman Bound : The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, the Anatomy Lesson, Epilogue : The Prague Orgy]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not actually get through this entire edition.  I read The Ghost Writer, and parts of Zuckerman Unbound.  I enjoyed Roth's writing; I believe that if I were myself a writer, the story would have perhaps touched a deeper cord.  Roth investigates what seemed to come across as the dark side of wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15752866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thank god that book is over - the bound copy of three separate books, it was too freakin' heavy to lug around anymore. It's hard to judge using stars for three books, but on par it's always a great Philip Roth read. <br/>In Ghost Writer (5 stars), young Nathan Zuckerman, writer precocious, sets out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18183830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tremendous series.  Given Roth's reputuation, I was less than impressed when I read The Plot Against America, which I thought was dull and rather superficial.  These were among the best examples of post-war American fiction I've read. If Joyce had been born a Newark Jew in the latter 20th century he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9893100">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Zuckerman Unbound - it's delightful to follow Roth's inner dialgoue. ALthough this book featured some bizarre characters (the quiz show dude, really strange) and some fairly egocentric meditations on what must have been the fallout for Roth following Portoy's Complaint, I really enjoyed reading it, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42330055">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually four books.  I liked the first one a lot but then they got progressively less good.  Parts of this book I wanted to scream, I was so frustrated.  I can appreciate a good obsession, believe me, but Roth's obsessions and mine just do not match up.  I was hoping to read all of his Zuc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41844896">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy reading Roth--he's smoother than Updike--does that mean he's not as profound?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Ghost Writer was creative and pretty enjoyable.  It all went downhill from there.  By the end I was so disgusted with Zuckerman (and Roth by proxy) that I couldn't help but laugh.  I can't believe people continue to read Roth and assign his work for graduate courses.  There is nothing special he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76884929">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth &quot;our foremost novelist since Faulkner.&quot; Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth's collected works. <br/><br/> This fourth volume presents the trilogy and epilogue that constitute <em>Zuckerman Bound</em> (1985), Roth's wholly original investigation into the unforeseen consequences of art-mainly in libertarian America and then, by contrast, in Soviet-suppressed Eastern Europe-during the latter half of the twentieth century.  <em>The Ghost Writer</em> (1979) introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. <em>Zuckerman Unbound</em> (1981) finds him far from Lonoff's domain-the scene is Manhattan as the sensationalizing 1960s are coming to an end. Zuckerman, in his mid-thirties, is suffering the immediate aftershock of literary celebrity. The high-minded prot&#142;g&#142; of E. I. Lonoff has become a notorious superstar. <em>The Anatomy Lesson</em> (1984) takes place largely in the hospital isolation ward that Zuckerman has made of his Upper East Side apartment. It is Watergate time, 1973, and to Zuckerman the only other American who seems to be in as much trouble as himself is Richard Nixon. Zuckerman, at forty, is beset with crippling and unexplained physical pain; he wonders if the cause might not be his own inflammatory work. In <em>The Prague Orgy</em> (1985), entries from Zuckerman's notebooks describing his 1976 sojourn among the outcast artists of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia reveal the major theme of Zuckerman Bound from a new perspective that provides the stinging conclusion to this richly ironic and intricately designed magnum opus. As an added feature, this volume publishes for the first time Roth's unproduced television screenplay for <em>The Prague Orgy</em>, featuring new characters and scenes that do not appear in the novella.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Ghost Writer deserves five stars, its one of my favorite Roth stories and was a joy to read. Zuckerman Unbound was pretty good as well. The Anatomy Lesson was good, albeit too long and a bit repetitive in stretches. Overall a very good stretch of writing]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so engaging. Each part of the trilogy is a distinctly different plot that relates to the other parts of the book through tone of voice, theme and symbolism.  It was a very satisfying read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Ghost Writer was great, and Zuckerman Unbound was definitely worth reading.  But, by the end I just wanted something different.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book with all the Zuckerman novellas in it, and he's been an aggravating but great character to follow.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Roth has such a bad reputation as a misogynist and anti-Semite. I read &quot;Ghost Writer&quot; and was curious...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Figured I should catch up with these books before moving on to the finale, Exit Ghost.<br/><br/>jw]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great, great series of novels.  I like Roth, but these are by far my favorites of his many novels.]]></body>
    
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