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Wowbagger

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RIP Philip Roth
« on: 23 May, 2018, 10:17:17 am »
I never did like liver anyway.
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citoyen

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Re: RIP Philip Roth
« Reply #1 on: 23 May, 2018, 10:47:33 am »
I've never read Portnoy's Complaint but I did read Sabbath's Theater, which is utterly depraved. Also very funny.

Definitely up there as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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T42

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Re: RIP Philip Roth
« Reply #2 on: 23 May, 2018, 12:58:53 pm »
Never read any of his, due to having had "Call It Sleep" shoved at me one Christmas and dozing off reading it. CIS was by Henry Roth, so thereafter I shied away from Roths in general.

"Utterly depraved" sounds good, though.
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citoyen

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Re: RIP Philip Roth
« Reply #3 on: 23 May, 2018, 01:10:42 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 23 May, 2018, 12:58:53 pm
"Utterly depraved" sounds good, though.

It's up there with American Psycho for depravity.
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T42

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Re: RIP Philip Roth
« Reply #4 on: 23 May, 2018, 01:22:45 pm »
Oh goody, let's have lots.

(Who said that?)
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Steph

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Re: RIP Philip Roth
« Reply #5 on: 29 May, 2018, 05:56:56 pm »
Homage in one of David Nobbs' Reggie Perrin books, to appropriately comic ends.
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