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Henderson the Rain King: 2 (Penguin Great Books of the ...
Amazon.com — Mildly humorous but not really worth it Henderson is a big rich idiot. Having got everything he ever wanted through his life because of his riches, he seeks to find fulfillment by going to Africa. As he says,"...it's the destiny of my generation ...More…
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Humboldt's Gift (An Alison Press book)
Amazon.com — Pretentious Nonsense Charlie Citrine was such an incredibly tedious character that about three quarters of the way through the novel I just started skipping over his pseudo-philosophical detours. Like another reviewer mentioned, I often times would be ...More…
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Seize the Day
Amazon.com — Author Saul Bellow Dewey Decimal Number 823 EAN 9780140043112 ISBN 014004311X Number Of Pages 118 Publication Date 1976-09-30More…
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Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)
Amazon.com — The loser in all of us... While this book is technically a "novella", it packs a lot of punch for its 114 pages. If you're looking for a light, fun read, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. The plot is almost incidental to the internal ...More…
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Herzog (Penguin Modern Classics)
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review A novel complex, compelling, absurd and realistic, Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog, a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup ...More…
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It all Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain ...
Amazon.com — A very valuable collection of essays It All Adds Up, a collection of essays, written with Saul Bellow's great human insight, literary qualities and dry wit. Of course for everybody whom have read Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, The Adventures of Augie ...More…
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Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories ...
Amazon.com — This is a really dense collection... ...and I don't mean that in a bad way. It took me a month to get through, and when I finally put it down I sat for a good thirty minutes, just thinking. There are five stories in all, and they all focus on someone ...More…
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More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com — Not his best, but still remarkable This isn't the one to choose if you've never read Bellow. Seize the Day (think brevity) is the place to start. From there, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift, or Herzog make the best long reads. Augie ...More…
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain ...
Amazon.com — A very valuable collection of essays It All Adds Up, a collection of essays, written with Saul Bellow's great human insight, literary qualities and dry wit. Of course for everybody whom have read Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, The Adventures of Augie ...More…
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com — This is Not Carl Sandburg's Chicago These seem to be Chicago days for this reviewer. He has just done some reviews of Chicago's Chess Records that essentially defined the sound of the electrified blues in what would be old Augie's old ...More…
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Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Amazon.com — The loser in all of us... While this book is technically a "novella", it packs a lot of punch for its 114 pages. If you're looking for a light, fun read, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. The plot is almost incidental to the internal ...More…
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The Victim (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com — An Improvement Over His First Novel I am a Bellow fan and have read most of his novels. Saul Bellow wrote two manuscripts in the early 1940s. One was so bad that he threw it out. The second was "Dangling Man" is probably his worst novel, or tied ...More…