tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531134620517274173.post7406309845098065591..comments2023-10-21T05:32:15.947-04:00Comments on dahlhaus: Books: The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul BellowDahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935191760506899625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531134620517274173.post-43130537835620347022007-12-17T17:12:00.000-05:002007-12-17T17:12:00.000-05:00auggie march was a piece of shit and put me off be...auggie march was a piece of shit and put me off bellow for good. (well, that and 'henderson the rain king'.) <BR/><BR/>i think kingsley amis at some point said when reading virginia woolf, he kept thinking, 'this is exactly what that character would not do!' that's pretty much how i felt reading auggie march. everything rang false, and the prose was too over-heated and boring to make up for it. i gather most people who admire this book figured they had read enough to get away with pretending to like it before they got to the scene on the life-raft, where auggie march is stuck with a deranged psychology student who wants to kidnap him for behavioral experiments on the canary islands. if that sounds like something a second-rate zadia smith would make up, it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com