A review by halhalbert
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

3.0

While certainly not for everyone, this novel offers an incredibly candid view of the challenges of friendship with a mentally ill genius. While our narrator is not particularly sympathetic, the fascination of the novel is watching it shift from a series if whirlpool musings into almost a plot the connects his obsession with boredom and meaning into a late_life direction.