A review by joenicholl
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

1.0

Since I was a teenager I have salt & peppered my reading with a number of the Great American Classics...nearly all of the Hemingway's, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc...Edgar Allen Poe...of the more modern authors many John Updike, Jack Kerouac, even Joyce Carrol Oates and a few others along the way....it's fun, interesting reading. Sooooooooo...The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, an American Classic about Hollywood in 1939, has been on my reading list for a long, long time. I picked up a copy at the library the other day...gave it a read...and...and IT SUCKED! Horrible...one of the biggest let downs of my reading experience. It's NOT about he glory days of Hollywood, the cinema capitol of the world...it's about a couple of country bumpkins who end up in Hollywood with no plans other than make it Big and their trials & tribulations...So what! Who the flip cares? Not one redeeming character...one who's name is Homer Simpson! Doh! Yeah...I thought it was a real stinker...so glad I got a loaner and didn't pay for this crap...not much else to say...suck-o...1 outta 5...