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08-19-2006, 12:00 PM | #1 |
Slattern of the Swail
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Philip Roth
I just finished reading EVERYMAN by Philip Roth (THE HUMAN STAIN, GOODBYE, COLUMBUS; PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, etc.) and I sincerely wish that I had a magic wand because I would wave it around and bestow the following three gifts on Mr. Roth:
1) Immortality. Perhaps with the relief this knowledge would bring he could write a different g*ddamn story for once. Something decidedly NOT morbid and death-obsessed. 2) Limitless pudenda. This would no doubt enable him to focus on something other than, well, pudenda and his deep, deep, nearly unnatural desire for it, especially when it's on a female literally whole quarters of centuries younger than he is. Roth (in his 70's himself) would like us to believe that 70-something men are what 20-something women are looking for in a casual lover. 3) Ability to Get Over Himself. What I am saying is EVERYMAN was like EVERY other book Roth has written and I feel like a sucker for reading it.
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