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Title: Talk about what *is* there
Review: Seems to me, most of you who are writing in criticizing this book are angry because of what you didn't find: hints as to where the story is going, a standard structure, Swede not being "heroic" enough. To all of those readers, I think if you read it again with a more open mind, you'll find you missed the point. What Roth is saying is that *nothing* is as simple or as comprehendable as it originally seems. Not the Swede, who's life initially seems so perfect, and who as a man seems so good from Zuckerman's outside perspective; not his wife, who was a beauty contestant, and wary of the title and all that came with it, and not Merry, who is neither a monster nor the beautiful little girl of Swede's dreams.Similarly, the novel is none of those trite categories you might initially want it to be, but much much more.
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