May 15, 2007
Everyman
So, I just got done with Philip Roth's book Everyman, and here are the interesting bits:
- From the back cover of the book the critics almost literally called it the best greatest book 'alive'. Why? It was good, sure - but how much of me liking it was real and how much was it me reacting to the group. If a female friend had written it (in high school) what would I have thought? Award-winning? How much of the praise is due to the complete and total universality of the theme - did every critic react like the author had them in his radar; did this make the book so personal that it had to be a masterpiece?
- What will my office building look like in 100 years; where will all those that I know be?
- If there was no death, would there be no religion? What would the idea of 'karma' and the general secular understanding of the meaning of life be without this endpoint?
- Hmm; what else has this guy written?