2.5 stars I really enjoy Philip Roth short stories - and that's saying something, because overall, I generally don't like short stories. So when I got this book (thank you CZH), I was very excited to read one of his books, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, no less! It took me weeks to get through the...
Review from June 2010: [My opinions aren't quite clear to me when it comes to this book. Usually I can definitively say where I stand with a text, but American Pastoral challenges that notion. The first third of the book, I felt, was uninteresting. Perhaps because I wasn't aware of the narrator an...
I won't repeat what it says on the back of the cover except for the last sentence: "Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece." Quite.As far as the plot goes, it's relatively straight forward. Man grows up, marries out of h...
Reading some of the reviews on this book, I see a bunch of people saying that the book dragged in certain parts, but I never once felt this way. I really really enjoy reading Philip Roth. The way he brings his complex characters to life, and the way he's able to implement so many themes into a boo...
If you want to know anything about guilds in Dublin this is the book. It starts off with an introduction, and history of Guilds in Dublin, of which only one survives the abolition in the 1840's (The Guild of Goldsmiths) and then follows with the Trade and Craft Guilds; The Religious Guilds and the ...
What an astonishing, magnificent book -- and tour de force -- I will leave it to the reader to discover whether it is a tragedy or a comedy... I listened to this book on audible -- it is read by Ron Silver, the actor -- and his performance is magnificent. The whole felt like a long one-act play.
I read American Pastoral about 3 months ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since. It's not just that the characters are so real and so tragic and the story so gripping, but it's the way the story is told. Everything comes across so informally. The narrator can hardly believe what has happened...
Mixed feelings about the novel, I'm not even sure I can put two words together. At times I loved it to pieces, at times I hated its guts. And it makes me angry every time I read a publisher's review / recommendation which says "this is one of the greatest novels of American Literature". Seriously, i...
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