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This was my first (audio)book by Philip Roth, and it may be my last book by him.
The book won the prestige Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and had been included, if Wikipedia is to be believed, in Time's "All-TIME Greatest 100 Novels." But... I just didn't get the appeal. It felt like Roth was rambling on and on, and all the characters were becoming more annoying to me as the book went on. In the end, I couldn't bring myself to finish the book. I wasn't going to like it. I wasn't going to get it. A loss-c ...more
The book won the prestige Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and had been included, if Wikipedia is to be believed, in Time's "All-TIME Greatest 100 Novels." But... I just didn't get the appeal. It felt like Roth was rambling on and on, and all the characters were becoming more annoying to me as the book went on. In the end, I couldn't bring myself to finish the book. I wasn't going to like it. I wasn't going to get it. A loss-c ...more
Feel like I ‘should’ read this, not sure I will enjoy...let’s see.
May 25, 2008
Nicole
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Kelly Carroll Lopez
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