Penguin Classics The Adventures of Augie March, (Paperback)

from TheAmpersand

Epic in the truest sense, an astonishingly dense and beautifully lyrical account of an undistinguished Chicago kid's coming of age. I wasn't too far into "The Adventures of Augie March" before I realized that one reading wasn't going to be enough and that I'd have to re-read it before too long. B...

from mjiko

This is one of my all-time favourite books, and a classic American bildungsroman. The prose is dense and full of description, but the book still storms along at a great pace, with fantastic characterizations and narrative. The atmosphere of Chicago that comes through is incredible. Saul Bellow en...

from Narshkite

So much has been said about this book that I am going to balk on a review. I will just say that it is a wonderful portrait of a time and a place and a person, it is rollicking good fun, and it is unashamedly smart. Reading such a literate book, its brilliant and apt and challenging references wor...

from TheAmpersand

Epic in the truest sense, an astonishingly dense and beautifully lyrical account of an undistinguished Chicago kid's coming of age. I wasn't too far into "The Adventures of Augie March" before I realized that one reading wasn't going to be enough and that I'd have to re-read it before too long. B...

from growl

This book took me a while to get into. Once he starts working for his brother it picked up a bit and when he travels to Mexico I really enjoyed it. I was disappointed with the ending, but I guess that is the only type of ending a book of this genre could have. The descriptions and character devel...