A review by faintgirl
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1.0

I hated this book with a passion. I hated the self importance of the narrator, I hated the people he surrounded himself with, and the society he'd got himself into, only to try and escape. It reads a little like an extremely boring Laurel and Hardy movie. His old buddy Humboldt sounded like the only likeable guy on the planet, and he was pretty much done for. This took me forever read, and that's about all I can manage to write about it after finishing it weeks ago. A week after finishing New York magazine published a big piece about Bellow, and it seems he's a bit like Marmite. I'm definitely on the dislike side of the opinion.