If you are American or Jewish, there is literally no excuse for not reading Philip Roth.
I read the Zuckerman Bound trilogy. He's good: great dialogue, passionate prose.
>>7977154
there is no excuse for not reading Philip Roth overall
>>7977154
Roth is certainly a much better writer than /lit/ favs like Pynchon, McCarthy and Wallace, but he's still a minor writer in the grand scheme of things.
what are his best books. I always see so many at the book store I thought he was some popular fiction writer.
>Norway and territories, former and present
Snorri Sturluson.
>>7977223
The ghost writer, Sabbath's theater, and American Pastoral are his best works.
>>7977201
>Better than Pynchon
No.
>Better than McCarthy
Yes.
>Minor writer
No.
>>7977248
this is a correct post
I've recently read Portnoy's Complaint and though I found it funny (at times) it got quite repetitive and dull. What is his best work lit?
read goodbye columbus, human stain, and plot against america, preferred them in that order. first was the best novel we'd read in middle school and below. his prose is great in everything, in human stain he ratcheted up lyrically a bunch of times, more than in the other two. he's a very nj author and that's a chunk of his appeal (to me), all three of those books are mostly nj.
once read a roth ss (about a town of growingly-reform jews, in ny maybe?) that seemed better than the novels, but i dont think he has a ton of short work
I always figured him for one of those authors you read in school, or that older mainstream 'literary' types read, like people who don't spend all there time on /lit/ commenting on shit they haven't read, but people who actually know good lit when they see't. Shit.
