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Prompt: Elegy

My first Philip Roth 😊 I loved this movie! Hoping the book is even better 💕 #bibliophile #rummagesalefind

There were two passages I loved. Where the title is explained and where Cole says something about that he does what he did because he _can_.

But I really don‘t seem to understand the rest. I assume it could be a question of culture. Can any American 🇺🇸 Litten explain the missing links to me❓ It‘s clear that any author is free in weaving her or his story but this one lacks plausibility.

What I take home with me is: No more Philip Roth for me.

“So-So” or Pan”❓This is so “deep” and “meaningful” that I don‘t get the message. It‘s all too constructed. Why Bill Clinton❓ A Vietnam trauma in 1998❓🙄 How old is Les supposed to be❓

Cole‘s motive remains blurry. It‘s mimimi, if you ask me. But maybe racism is what every “big” U. S. novel needs to deal with even if there is none. I will have forgotten the book soon.

For each of the protagonists a good therapist might have done the trick.

Looking for some coziness in my bed. Together with this audiobook that I yesterday also was sceptical about and that I‘m sure to already have bailed on if it was a physical copy … Dunno maybe I‘m questioning too many things at the moment. I simply don‘t get Silk‘s intention to say that he‘s [insert spoiler here] even if he‘s […] – am I narrow-minded❓ 🤔 – but I hope his motives will dissolve in the further course of the plot …

Started this audiobook yesterday late at night and maybe this is the reason why I at first couldn‘t find into it. Rewinding a few minutes this morning while sipping coffee definitely helped revise my first impression.

It‘s an audio drama and technically well made. Now, around minute 40, I am curious to discover some deep insights I expect to come. I don‘t know why I do so. It‘s just a feeling because the title rings a bell with me.

#24in48 hour 6 challenge: marvelous opening lines!

I read this book because in one of the obituaries of Philip Roth, someone mentioned that Zadie Smith loved it. Because there was so much posthumous press on Roth having been at various times reviled as a misogynist, racist The , etc., i thought I'd take a look at this one. (And, a couple other friends had reviewed it well also.)

So, it's not a perfect book. (Continued in comments)

This book. 💔

My review in 'Biblioteche oggi', (Italian only, sorry) http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/2004/20040809001.pdf
#PhilpRoth #philiproth #thehumanstain #novel

Ditched the gym for the bookstore...no regrets, can‘t put this down!!!

Ready to start my newest library pickup. #1001books

#melodicmay #blackorwhite Interesting backstory plot in this book about being black or white. I read this several years ago and enjoyed it.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.