American Pastoral
by Philip Roth | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375701427 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0375701427 Global Overview for this book
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Recommended by a friend.
I lost interest in this book slowly but surely. I stopped reading this after about 100 pages. I enjoyed the beginning. I like the writing style. I even marked a couple of passages that I liked.
I can't explain exactly what put me off. Perhaps it was when the story started to shift from Zuckerman to the part where Zuckerman starts to invent The Swede's life from the bits and pieces that he knows about. The "book within a book" felt a little bit contrived in this case. Or perhaps I'm just not the right age for this book. There's an incredible amount of nostalgia for "the way things were" and angst so thick it started to get annoying. Finally I simply got bored with both the characters and the story.
I had fairly high expectations (it was a Pulitzer Prize winner) so perhaps that is one of the reasons I was disappointed. For whatever reason this was not the book for me.
I'm going to release this into the wild in hopes of finding a more appreciative reader.
I can't explain exactly what put me off. Perhaps it was when the story started to shift from Zuckerman to the part where Zuckerman starts to invent The Swede's life from the bits and pieces that he knows about. The "book within a book" felt a little bit contrived in this case. Or perhaps I'm just not the right age for this book. There's an incredible amount of nostalgia for "the way things were" and angst so thick it started to get annoying. Finally I simply got bored with both the characters and the story.
I had fairly high expectations (it was a Pulitzer Prize winner) so perhaps that is one of the reasons I was disappointed. For whatever reason this was not the book for me.
I'm going to release this into the wild in hopes of finding a more appreciative reader.
Journal Entry 3 by ahimsa at Starbucks, Murray/ Scholls Ferry in Beaverton, Oregon USA on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Released on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at Starbucks Coffee at Murray and Scholls Ferry in Beaverton, Oregon USA.
I left this on a table near the door at about 8:30 PM.
I left this on a table near the door at about 8:30 PM.