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[jd]

I think part of why I put Shylock down was because I had just finished
Complaint...  he focuses a lot on his culture I think, so maybe I had
just sort of burned out on that particular aspect for the time being.
I'll give it another shot at some point.

On 8/3/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> << Didn't he write American Pastoral? I've had great results referring that
> to non-literary friends... >>
>
> Yes he did and it's very good, the first of what became a trilogy of sorts
> (with I Married a Communist and The Human Stain).
>
> However, it's a decided change of tone and, I think, if you want Roth in his
> full-blown brilliance, the earlier Zuckerman novels are the ones to read.
>
>