Seize the Day, (Paperback)

from stillatim

This could be Bellow's 'Crying of Lot 49': the book you read because you can't face reading the 600 page masterpiece. As such, it made me think I might want to read Augie March after all, despite my difficulty believing that big, blond men can have existential crises. It's not you, Seize the Day,...

from AliceAnna

Yet another story where the protagonist is unlikable. It's hard to get up much sympathy for Wilhelm although, at the end, you can't wish that much despair on another human being no matter how weak, ineffectual, unfocused. I can't really blame his father for cutting him off, though had he been kin...

from nandadevi

Perhaps someone else has already said it, but there's very little art or artistry in this short story portrait of a man's life masquerading as a train wreck (or perhaps the other way around). In any case Bellow went on to do this many more times, and sometimes with more interesting results. I can...

from nandadevi

Perhaps someone else has already said it, but there's very little art or artistry in this short story portrait of a man's life masquerading as a train wreck (or perhaps the other way around). In any case Bellow went on to do this many more times, and sometimes with more interesting results. I can...

from bookworm12

Meh. I think this was a case of the wrong book at the wrong time. Honestly, just didn't want to read about another poor me white man who can't live up to his father's expectations. A bit like Ulysses, the novel tags Place over the course of one day. It's also a bit like Death of a Salesman, with ...