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Title: Boring
Review: I know this book won the Pulitzer Prize and I know that Philip Roth is considered as a great contemporary writer, and I am not questioning the point in any sort of way, but I am afraid I am one of those who did not enjoy reading American Pastoral.The story in itself is interesting, and sure enough Philip Roth has a specific style that is mostly enjoyable, but I cannot stand the repetitive pattern he uses in his story.On and on it goes, the same event is narrated again and again, and again.... That bored me ... a LOT. And even the interesting writing style did not manage to make the read pleasurable to me.What seems to be a particularity of Roth's style from what I recall of my reading The Human Stain and that The San Fransisco Chronicle describes as "At once expansive and painstakingly detailed"... is exactly what I did not like in the novel and made my reading of it "painstakingly" achieved. I would probably have dropped it if I did not have to read it for study purposes.
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