Reviews

The English Major by Jim Harrison

le13anna's review against another edition

I went along with all of the woe-is-me until he admitted that he had cheated on his wife and was culpable in her leaving him. Then I couldn't read anymore.

lcsmcat's review against another edition

4.0

Hilariously funny, insightful, and beautifully crafted.

featherbooks's review against another edition

2.0

Much as I have enjoyed Harrison in the past, after 63 pages I could not care about his protagonist, his girlfriend or his sex life. The idea of visiting every state had a certain appeal but not enough to keep reading.

eyegee's review against another edition

5.0

This is my second book by Jim Harrison in as many months, and I think I have to put him on my favorite authors list. He has a way of combining humor and philosophy in a very agreeable way.

jodiwilldare's review against another edition

4.0

I’m the type of reader who doesn’t often read reviews of books that I want to read. I read all kinds of reviews of books that I’ve never even heard of, but if the book is on my list I wait until after I’ve finished it to read any reviews. This nearly killed me a few months back when I was reading Philip Roth’s Indignation and saw that David Gates had written a review of it for the NY Times.

The same can be said for Jim Harrison’s The English Major. Even though I’d never heard of the book the minute I read the subhead on a LA Times review from October. It said this:

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