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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 2, 2004 19:27:00 GMT -5
by Philip Roth.
Just started it today. Alleged masterpiece. Supposed to be funny as hell. We'll see.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 15:15:38 GMT -5
And? It's been 5 and a half years. Finished?
I read it in the past year and just finished American Pastoral. *That* one has an interesting narrative -- and I don't mean the story.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 11, 2009 19:20:38 GMT -5
I can't even remember starting this thread. Roth has a foul mouth. I didn't finish Portnoy's Complaint. I started on American Pastoral, but it was the same shiite. It's not that I don't have the mettle for Roth, it's just that every time I read his stuff, I keep muttering "Oy vei" under my breath.
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Post by standingroomonly1 on Sept 12, 2009 7:26:17 GMT -5
I had heard about the movie when it first came out---obviously many years ago, so I took a girl out for the first time and we went to see it. The main impression of her that I came away with was that she seemed to be "the silent type" but that night at the theater she ALWAYS seemed to laugh at the profanity and vulgarity--parts I felt were quite unappropriate. (Nevertheless, I got over it and we dated for two years!!).
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Post by VBCOACH on Sept 12, 2009 8:56:32 GMT -5
I have a complaint.
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