A review by chamberk
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

2.0

Well that was unpleasant

-life is hard for an old white writer
-especially when awful women are being so mean to him. don't they recognize his genius?
-the sexy young thing that old white writer is seeing somehow gives herself an orgasm with his foot under the table???
-a big lesson here is don't trust women, even if they use your foot to get themselves off
-also any time anything interesting would be happening in the plot, the narrator would take time off to discuss some blithering philosophical point for like 2-3 pages at a stretch. i ended up skimming that. SORRY IF IT WAS VERY DEEP AND I DIDN'T GET IT, BELLOW.

i did like the part with his brother. that was it.