Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989)

This was my second reading of the book, and twenty years later I found it still an intelligent and hilarious, if a bit biting, romp through Canadian Jewish history. ( )

A hard to catergorize book. Rangey, travels in time, from character to character, leaving the reader the job of keeping everything straight. Perhaps not a book to read in the car, with a lot of other distractions. Some good writing, some bad, some writing that is R-rated, perhaps typical for Richler, but nothing that I would say people will be reading 100 years from now. ( )

Not so great as Barney! But pleasant

Amazing book. I laughed from begining to end. Richler is kind of a taboo reading for a French-Canadian, but he doesn't only laugh at F-Cs... he laughs about everyone and everything, ESPECIALLY Jews. My teacher ended up taking this book out of his syllabus but I read it nonetheless, thinking it was a shame to give up on it.

A must-read. ( )