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Title: Don't bother!
Review: I feel terrible about not being able to finish a book that is only 182 pages long, but it is just too boring. Roth states that the scene in the original play - when Everyman tells Death that he arrived when he was least expected - was the inspiration for writing this book. Well, at the risk of sounding condescending, can anyone really be impressed with such an overwhelmingly obvious observation? Who else but Philip Roth could get away with publishing a novel with an unnamed hero that is little more than a grocery list of all the operations this guy ever had? Roth's weaknesses as a writer - his self-indulgence and self-centeredness - stand alone in this book, without any of the saving graces that can be found in some of his other works - such as story, character, and insight. I'm afraid the positive reviews of this book are just cases of readers not realizing that the emperor wears no clothes.
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