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suzemo 's review for:
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
Purchasing this book was a huge mistake. It was on sale, I remember being vaguely aware of it (or at last recognizing the title), and deciding to go ahead and getting it. Only to discover it was on my "not-interested" list.
After oodles of audiobooks, I'm pretty good at recognizing the difference between not liking a book and not liking the reader/narrator. I still cannot tell if the narrator was awful for this book, or he was just good at reading an awful book.
This book, this great-American-novel is so full of itself and its pretensions, and its adoration of its own vocabulary. It's so butthurt over PCness that it's its own steaming pile of "ists" (classist, racist, sexist, the list goes on.) It is too long and takes itself so seriously that it does not feel like one of those novels that is teaching you about the thing it abhors by being that thing, so if it is, well damn, you got me book (though I sincerely doubt it).
I think the part where the author uses a black female character to rant about PCness of racism made my eyes roll the hardest, but it was at the end of the book, otherwise, I might have just stopped it there, and called it my first audio-DNF.
After oodles of audiobooks, I'm pretty good at recognizing the difference between not liking a book and not liking the reader/narrator. I still cannot tell if the narrator was awful for this book, or he was just good at reading an awful book.
This book, this great-American-novel is so full of itself and its pretensions, and its adoration of its own vocabulary. It's so butthurt over PCness that it's its own steaming pile of "ists" (classist, racist, sexist, the list goes on.) It is too long and takes itself so seriously that it does not feel like one of those novels that is teaching you about the thing it abhors by being that thing, so if it is, well damn, you got me book (though I sincerely doubt it).
I think the part where the author uses a black female character to rant about PCness of racism made my eyes roll the hardest, but it was at the end of the book, otherwise, I might have just stopped it there, and called it my first audio-DNF.