09-10-2009, 18:18
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater - 1995
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About an old man (65) who is obsessed with two things, sex and death. I don't mind the sex, but in this case it's like perverted sex, and a little too graphic. Very well writen as is any Roth I have read. This guy is a retired pupeteer, if that's the right term. He is married and has never been faithfull to his wife. As he is approaching that age where we all start thinking about the inevitable, he is telling the tales of his many sexcapades. He contemplates suicide but can't do it, then tries to get killed and can't do that either. Pitiful old man. Depressing book with too much debauchery for me.
Grade - C
next up - Smoke Screen by Philip J. Hilts
About an old man (65) who is obsessed with two things, sex and death. I don't mind the sex, but in this case it's like perverted sex, and a little too graphic. Very well writen as is any Roth I have read. This guy is a retired pupeteer, if that's the right term. He is married and has never been faithfull to his wife. As he is approaching that age where we all start thinking about the inevitable, he is telling the tales of his many sexcapades. He contemplates suicide but can't do it, then tries to get killed and can't do that either. Pitiful old man. Depressing book with too much debauchery for me.
Grade - C
next up - Smoke Screen by Philip J. Hilts