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Title: No likeable characters and...
Review: Up until reading this book, the only work of Philip Roth's I had ever read was Goodbye Columbus, when I was in college. I remember liking it very much. That was thirty years ago. Roth appears to have gone downhill severely, if this book is an example of his current writing. I Married a Communist has no characters who are even remotely likeable. The distanced "narrator", Murray, keeps us at bay with his windy language and constant digressions. Very self-indulgent choices by the author. Everything is asserted, nothing is shown. Enormously disappointing. I am only giving two stars because I actually managed to finish it, and the ending is good.
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