Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth
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Book Reviews of Exit Ghost
Book Review: Intriguing tale, distracting execution
Summary: 2 Stars
While the storyline makes for good reading, the execution with the inserted play-script dialogue is annoying and distracting. Rather than writing a story where the interactions of the characters tell the tale, or even hint at the feelings of the characters without being totally explicit, the sections of sterile scripted presentation make the story seem even more fabricated than fiction of course is. What you end up with is not-very-fleshed-out daydreaming, without even stage direction. A good story, but not a great read.Book Review: poignant, as always.
Summary: 4 Stars
I LOVE Philip Roth for his brutal and often embarrassing honesty, his incredibly sharp insight into cultural phenomena and their absurdity about which most of people are oblivious. In Exit Ghost, the protagonist is alot more subdued than in previous Zuckerman books, however, his forced withdrawal makes his observations far more introspective, and his imaginations more personal. I also enjoyed cultural commentaries through his characters about the dangers of tainting literature by cultural journalism.Book Review: One of Roth's best
Summary: 5 Stars
"Exit Ghost" is another of Philip Roth's meditations on mortality, and one of his very best. No one else that I know of deals with the realities of aging so realistically and so unblinkingly. This is an appendage to the Zuckerman trilogy that takes us back and forth in Zuckerman's life from his youthful infatuation with the lover of his mentor to his current obsession with a woman one third his age. Brilliant writing throughout.Book Review: Exit Ghost is male chauvinist trash
Summary: 1 Stars
Exit Ghost is male chauvinist trash. The authors shows no understadning of women. I shows how he views the world through his penis. If the authors intention is get symapthy for the impotent male charcter, he did not succeed. I hope all men who think and feel like this man should live their "prime" of thier life as impotent fools.It reminded me of all the offensive, inappropriate encounters I had with older men. Vile trashBook Review: Exit Ghost
Summary: 4 Stars
One of Philip Roth's best novels. He, or his doppleganger,face the indignities of old age frankly, and it is also a chance for him to expatiate on his pet peeves: loud conversations on cell phones, bad grammar and the misuse of words etc. Since these are my peeves too, it was nice to see them in print.