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Title: The worst book of the year?
Review: Phillip Roth has become the worst type of writer, an educated dirty old man. The Dying Animal is a stunningly misogynistic, and deeply flawed account of a man's attempts to justify his own shortcomings as a sexual being. Without the subtlety and grace of Nabokov's "Lolita", the Dying Animal is a boring account of a boring, pathetic old man, and at the end of the novel we are left with absolutely no impression that Roth has any understanding of his central character, other than the fact that he obviously likes young breasts. Roth's brief peak as a writer would seem to be over, and this novel is a puerile demonstration of bad writing dressed up for the intellectual set. Truly awful...go and read Lolita.
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