Shannon's review of The Breast
The Breast by Philip Roth
I wonder if Philip Roth sat down and said "I want to write Metamorphosis again, but instead of the story being fascinating I'm going to make it mildly amusing. Oh, also, instead of a giant bug, my character is going to turn into a giant boob. Yeah. Good times". I don't know how much of my moderate disliking of this had to do with the actual story, and how much had to do with the fact that I found the image of a giant consious boob repulsive. That being said, I liked that the character figured, eventually, that he was not in fact a giant boob but was just insane and thought he was a giant boob. And everyone is like "no, really, you're a boob" And he's like "See, you just told me that I'm NOT a boob, I'm sure, but I heard that you said I am. I've clearly gone crazy". And I also liked when someone came to visit him and just laughed hysterically and left. Hah. Otherwise.. eh.
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