Reading on BART
Reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral because the classmate whose writing I admire and whom I kind of have a crush on mentioned that it is his favorite book. I'm 80% through the book and I can't help but feel distaste for it. I'm hoping that things will change in the last section of the book, that will surprise me, but currently, it reads like a super political, very very pro-American (urgh!!) book, bursting with the glorious American ideals--and an older generation's angst against the changes that have been taking place in America.
How Pro-America can an American novel get? I'm just really hoping the ending would surprise me....please. I am hoping that I will be proven wrong, (I want to be wrong) because other than that, it is exceptionally written. Well, I find out when I get to the end. Shouldn't be too long now...
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