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| 1. |  | Indignation from Houghton Mifflin Price: $15.61 Customer Review:  I LOVE Philip Roth, but this is hardly the great book that some people on here have made it out to be. The characters in this book are extremely weakly drawn, especially the father who is supposed to have a crucial role in the plot, but who lacks nuance completely. The love interest, Oliva, seems... |
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| 2. |  | Exit Ghost Price: $18.00 Customer Review:  71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman, an established writer and thoughtful loner, hates cell phones and the narcissism of contemporary life, viewing himself as an "escapee from the coarse-grained world" of the Bush Administration and New York City after September 11, 2001 as well as of prostate problems and... |
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| 3. |  | Exit Ghost (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: 71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman, an established writer and thoughtful loner, hates cell phones and the narcissism of contemporary life, viewing himself as an "escapee from the coarse-grained world" of the Bush Administration and New York City after September 11, 2001 as well as of prostate problems and... |
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| 4. |  | The Plot Against America from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I bought this after hearing an interview with the author on NPR. I really liked it. Being a history-nerd, I was intrigued by the alternative-history aspect of Charles Lindbergh being president but that wasn't really the main point of the book. TPAM is a deeper look into fear and prejudice, and... |
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| 5. |  | American Pastoral from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: I understand that a film version of American Pastoral is in production. Great novels are difficult to make into great movies. Roth, who has written several great novels does not translate well to the screen. Interior action has primacy in a book and is near impossible to replicate in a movie. A... |
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| 6. |  | Portnoy's Complaint from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Philip Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint' offers the reader a fresh take on the Novel while never forgetting the tradition of the great writers that came before him. Porntoy's complaint is a character study in the form of a monologue made by Alexander Portnoy, a successfull Jew. However, Alex suffers... |
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| 7. |  | The Human Stain: A Novel from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: So this is a story about Coleman Silk who is black. He was raised in a respectable black family, with an optometrist father and a mother who was one of the first black Head Nurses in New Jersey. The Silks however, as Coleman came to find out, were much more accepted in their NJ neighborhood because... |
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| 8. |  | Everyman from Vintage Price: $10.40 Customer Review: This book opens, aptly, with the funeral of a nameless protagonist. It then follows on with a series of flashbacks on his life, raising probing questions concerning his (or really, everyman's) existence - on the tedium of day-to-day living, the pain of regret and loss, the debilitating nature of... |
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| 9. |  | The Dying Animal (Movie Tie-in Edition/Elegy) (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $10.36 Customer Review: As noted author Philip Roth has gotten older, so have his main characters, which lead to the themes of aging, death, and diminished capabilities that now predominate in his novels. David Kepesh, a noted NYC university professor, conducts a senior seminar in critical writing called Practical... |
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| 10. |  | Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: In this initial work of Philip Roth, the characters almost seem too realistic at times. Though this is a collection of short stories, the title piece shines as the highlight of the set. Without a doubt, this is among Roth's finest works. "Goodbye, Columbus" is an authentic tale of summer love... |
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| 11. |  | The Ghost Writer from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Put on your bathing suit and expect to get sprayed at every turn. When you think he's serious, he's kitschy. When he's just gone too far, he gets serious, philosophical. Always self-referential. But if you think it's autobiographical, he's just having fun with you. And you with him. At the same... |
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| 12. |  | Herzog (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I am about halfway through this, which I'm slogging through for my reading group. I would never have chosen such a one, it being a book that is thought to be "enlightening." However one must admit that Saul Bellow, as an author, has a way with words and descriptions. Herzog is an unlikeable... |
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| 13. |  | Sabbath's Theater from Vintage Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I first read Sabbath's Theater--my first encounter with Roth, for that matter--when it was initially published in the late 90s. I thought that it was the funniest book that I had ever encountered. I laughed so much that my girlfriend could not wait for me to finish it and went to buy her own copy. I... |
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| 14. |  | Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08 (Censored) from Seven Stories Press Price: $14.57 Customer Review:  I don't own this one because it's not available on the Kindle, but I just suffered through last years version Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-07 (Censored) and thought some of you might find my review of the 2008 version useful (or not). Here goes: "Let me start by saying... |
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| 15. |  | Philip Roth: Novels and Other Narratives 1986-1991 / The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony (Library of America #185) from Library of America Price: $23.10 Customer Review: Philip Roth emerged as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century and a man whose talents were to stretch the boundaries of western literature and bring new life into American fiction. Capably edited by Ross Miller (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of... |
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| 16. |  | Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985: The Ghost Writer / Zuckerman Unbound / The Anatomy Lesson / The Prague Orgy (Library of America #175) from Library of America Price: $23.10 Customer Review: I have not read this yet so am only commenting that the whole delivery porocess worked just fine |
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| 17. |  | The Counterlife from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: The Countertife, by Philip Roth (Page numbers refer to 1988 Penguin Books edition) Nathan Zuckerman, Jewish writer, husband of several gentile wives, a guy who believes that thinking about things matters, this literary invention of Philip Roth, works out his own death and life on paper.... |
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| 18. |  | Patrimony : A True Story from Vintage Price: $10.36 Customer Review: I like Philip Roth as an author. This book is really a tribute to his father not so much his mother. It seems that he was closer to his father, Herman Roth who he calls the true Bard of Newark, New Jersey. While his son, Philip Roth, has continued to become one of America's top authors and was... |
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| 19. |  | I Married a Communist from Vintage Price: $11.20 Customer Review: I had read about the "revenge" factor in this Roth novel and perhaps because I wasn't quite familiar with the principals (on whom this book was supposedly based on), I ignored the negative spin and just enjoyed the story for what it was ... an invaluable lesson for all writers no matter their genre... |
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| 20. |  | The Professor of Desire from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Written in 1977, this is the second book by Philip Roth featuring David Kepesh, here a young man who is starting his career as a literature professor. As he pursues different women in different continents, the question always in his mind is if he should settle for marriage and love or for sex... |
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| 21. |  | The Anatomy Lesson from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: This was my first Philip Roth book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the descriptions of the pain that Zuckerman felt were brilliant. One passage where he describes one of his women cooking him rice pudding because he shredded his stomach with painkillers sticks in my mind. I... |
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| 22. | [no image] | Laughable Loves from Penguin (Non-Classics) Customer Review: "When it comes to commerce, the erotic is a touchy issue, because while everyone may covet the erotic life, everyone also hates it as the source of their troubles, their frustrations, their yearnings, their complexes, their sufferings" Milan Kundera, Identity (p. 51). With his European... |
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| 23. |  | Zuckerman Unbound from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Two Great Male Narcissists, as writer David Foster Wallace termed them: Roth and Updike. Their respective famous fictional protagonists: Nathan Zuckerman, author, in the case of Roth, Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, businessman, in the case of Updike. The difference, is that while Updike writes about... |
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| 24. |  | Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This is my second read through most of Roth and this one remains one of my favorites. I suppose it would make better sense for new readers of Roth to read some of the books mentioned in this one first ... but I'm not sure its necessary. Order the bagels, chubs and lox and don't forget the cream... |
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| 25. |  | The Breast from Vintage Price: $9.60 Customer Review: This is more of a long short story than a novel. It is Roth's take on The Metamorphosis. Worth the read. |
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| 26. |  | Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast (Library of America) from Library of America Price: $23.10 Customer Review: The copy was sent without a jacket--as I was collecting the entire series, this was a disappointment. I returned it but was not refunded the purchase price. Will think twice before ordering again. Buying from a bookstore is better. |
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| 27. |  | The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography from Vintage Price: $11.90 Customer Review: Roth disarms his critics by getting his alter ego, Zuckerman, to comment. He concentrates of key elements of his life, and is particularly candid in his comments on his first wife and his response to her death. I felt a little sorry for the Boston University senior who got a few brief comments. She... |
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| 28. |  | My Life As a Man (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $11.21 Customer Review: For any writers of fiction, English majors, or just avid readers, this is a must-read. Book snobs and other elitists will smile and feel self-satisfied at the abundance of literary allusions and then cringe when they see their own pretentiousness put in print (I know I did), while everyone else will... |
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| 29. |  | Our Gang from Vintage Price: $10.36 Customer Review: There are those that have said this story is dated in their reviews. If we changed the names to reflect more contemporary leaders, is it not really just the same story today? While the story itself is a little overdone at points, the satire still brings clear echos of the Nixon Administration. |
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| 30. |  | Deception from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: This was a really bad book by an incredible writer who was trying to do too much with too little. Some have argued that the story, told almost completely in dialogue form is a wonderful demonstration of stretching and using language to its fullest; all I came away with was a jumbled up mess and a... |
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