Zuckerman Unbound Audiobook

" MUCH better than the first book. Even though this book in several places makes fun of readers who can't differentiate between fiction and the author projecting all his biography into his "fiction," I can't help but wonder how much of this is autobiographical. There are a few particularly harrowing segments where the self-reprimanding is so intensely felt, I cannot but believe that it was, in fact, felt by the author at some point after choosing a similar path to his protagonist(who is also a Jewish author). "

" I liked it less than 'The Ghost Writer' but still very interesting and full of the same acute sense of analyse. Many memorable scenes and lines, culminating with an amazing final image: the start of Zuckerman change associated with the change his old town 'suffered'; the place of the Jews as the poor emigrants with a bad name taken by the blacks.... "

" I am listening to this book. It is funny in a bittersweet way. I feel back in NYC again. The writing is excellent and the "tone" just whiny enough to reflect the culture and mindset of the main character. "

" Featuring a John Updike joke that made me laugh out loud in my kitchen. "

" Creates a compulsive, compelling repugnant character. Sense of Roth airing his faults, but smugly loving himself at the same time. "

" An excellent book, with humor and pathos. I enjoyed it very much. "

" Liked this one a lot. Roth was rolling during this period. "

" This book wasn't quite as hilarious and mind-bending as The Ghost Writer, but Roth still has an amazing capacity for cerebral humor and unexpected courses of plot. I'm eager to get on with the series. "

" Although this is not a bad book, I did not like it nearly as much as "Ghost Writer." It seems to lack a certain direction, and I never connected with Nathan in any meaningful way. I did, however, love Alvin Pepler. "

" Part of the first Zuckerman trilogy, which is also published as ZUCKERMAN BOUND (the trilogy, plus an epilogue). "

" Very good, better than the first Zuckerman book (The Ghost Writer) I think. Having read American Pastoral first you can see the motifs developing: Jewishness, involvement in and departure from, Newarks 'demise', obsessed father, fame, the writer whose freedom leaves him without family and roots... "

" I've been putting up these Roth books separately; however, I've been reading them in the bound volumes with several books together. I don't think that's a good idea, as now all of the novels are blending together and I can't remember what happened or how I felt about it. "

" Nathan Zuckerman finally hits it big with his pornographic, Portnoy-esque novel, but he quickly learns that his dream comes with a lot of baggage he isn't prepared for. "

" Roth, one of the great American satirists, creates here a truly miserable, eccentric main character, and fleshes out his life, world and experiences to great, amusing effect. Less heart-stopping and engaging than his latest effort though (The Plot Against America). "

" And astonishingly powerful book. Not for the timid heart. No violence. Just an unflinching look at the human condition. Fearless writing, like all good writing. "