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Title: This book was annoying.
Review: This book's writing style was tedious--a very poorly written book as far as I'm concerned. The sentences were unnecessarily packed--often 10 and 12 lines long--and the 2- and 3-page wanderings between lines of dialog were maddening. I had the feeling I was following someone who didn't really know where he was going or why. The book club I go to gave it 9 thumbs down and only 1 thumbs up. I read Portnoy's Complaint when it first came out years ago and didn't like it either, and this current book reminded me of it despite the almost 30 intervening years. It was my book club's consensus that this would be our last Roth selection. I am dumbfounded as to how a book like this could win a Pulitzer Prize. What do they use for criteria? Surely not writing technique.
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