Herzog
Saul Bellow
Read October 2008
Copy bought at a used book store or sale someplace sometime
Essay written Saturnday, December 6th, 2008
I can't remember exactly where I bought this book, but I have a notion that it was at a Washington County Library book sale, Mahtomedi branch, a few years ago. Doesn't matter.
I wonder if I ever would have read this if it hadn't been for the song "Saul Bellow" by Sufjan Stevens from his Avalanche album. At any rate, I usually got that song in my head when I saw this book sitting there on the coffee table or wherever.
Again, as with the unfortunate House Made Of Dawn, I wasn't in the right mindset yet to tackle this book. Or any book, really, but that's how it goes. I had to read something. My mind was still full of thoughts of Kauai. So this didn't get absorbed into my mind at all. Four hundred or so pages of "Is this over yet?"
It reminded me of Something Happened by Joseph Heller and American Pastoral by Philip Roth. Which is not a good thing.
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