A Philip Roth Fan?
Without warning, I have found myself to be a fan of Philip Roth. I can't pinpoint the exact moment, but I think it was about fifty pages into The Plot Against America, which I finished last night. Though it was the fourth Roth book I've read, it was the second that I thought was very good (the first being I Married a Communist, which I read last summer). That's my baseline standard: one great book or two very good books, and I'm a fan.
I had already read Operation Shylock and Portnoy's Complaint, and while I recognized Roth's obvious talent, I found the former a bit too clever, and the latter a bit too dated. Plot and Communist suffered from neither, and while they will not make any short list of my favorite books, they have left me with a strong desire to read more Roth. That's a pretty good recommendation.






