A review by gadicohen93
Herzog by Saul Bellow

1.0

Giving up page 240. One of the most frustrating reading experiences. You drown in the character’s neurotic drivel. But in all honesty, people just don’t live or think or relate to other people in the same ways as the characters here. I could feel the artifice of Bellow’s fingers writing nonsensical word after word without any attempt to narrow down the protagonist’s anxious, tedious, obsessive soliloquies. Madeleine and Daisy and Ramona and all other romantic partners here are as flat as a matzah. Scant humor, rare flashbacks to an intriguing backstory. No thank you.