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Here are some I forgot... how did I forget Philip Roth?? Anyway: The plot against America / Philip Roth Exit ghost / Philip Roth Delirium : a novel / Laura Restrepo The way to paradise / Mario Vargas Llosa The convalescent / by Jessica Anthony Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides Gil ...

... is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth S Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence Silas Marner by George Eliot Blindness by Jose Saramago Th ...

373. Auto-da-fé by Elias Canetti 11/22/09 374. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy 11/23/09 375. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 11/24/09 376. The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love by St. Augustine 11/25/09 377. Downstream by Joris-Karl Huysmans 11/26/09 378. Moon Pala ...

The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth - I've been meaning to read this for years.

... 11/22/09 373. Auto-da-fé by Elias Canetti 11/22/09 374. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy 11/23/09 375. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 11/24/09 FILM: Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

The Plot against America by Philip Roth

... group, I guess, although it is a riot. But I would highly recommend The Ghost Writer or The Human Stain by Philip Roth. The Plot Against America would be a thought-provoking read, although it's not my personal favorite among Roth's works.

... 10 1. The Red and the Black 2. The Piano Teacher read 3. The Tin Drum read 4. The Successor Albania - read 5. The Plot Against America 6. The Shining - read 7. Embers 8.

#219, Don't let The Plot Against America turn you against Philip Roth -- you might try American Pastoral, which I consider his masterpiece or any of a number of other books if you don't like The Plot Against America (I realize that isn't why you put it down, but stilll . . .). #222, I ...

Sorry to the fans of Philip Roth but I have given up on The Plot Against America for now... I have renewed the book and will read later when I don't feel much pressure. For some reason I have a load of books all due at the same time so I'm trying to get through them all. I will return to The Plot ...

Re: The Plot Against America, I too am a huge Philip Roth fan. I found the first half of the book extremely compelling. The description of how the narrator's family was treated while vacationing in Washington DC, for example, I found almost excrutiationgly true to what I know of the nature of ...

#104, 107, 108 I am a big Philip Roth fan but I didn't like The Plot Against America at all, but I will wait to see what Kiwiflora thinks before saying why!

Kiwiflowa and AMQS I read Plot Against America for a book discussion group. It wasn't a bad book, but I didn't really like it that much and the ending? I'll just leave it there since Kiwiflowa hasn't read it yet. The author did lots of research and the notes at the end about the reality of ...

>104, kiwiflora, good luck with The Plot Against America. I read it a couple of years ago for book club. I enjoyed it, but I found that his sentences would wander in such a way that I had a hard time following.

... case of The Road) So now that I finished The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell I have started reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. The summary on the back interested me but upon reading the first few pages I am not convinced yet that I'll be able to continue ...

... while to get back here. Of the two Roth books you mentioned, American Pastoral, in my opinion, is better by far. I found The Plot Against America to be great for the first half, but to fade away noticeably in the second half. Another relatively recent Roth novel I very much recommend is The H ...

... no-one has mentioned The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. While not Eisner's best work, The Plot is his attempt to document the history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and its continued use despite have been proven a fraud countless times. And if you're ...

... I've just looked at your profile and I notice that Philip Roth is one of your favourite authors. I have two of his novels, The Plot Against America and American Pastoral, neither of which I've read. Would you recommend one as being a better introduction to Roth than the other? So much to ...

... w.librarything.com/groups/jewishfiction. I'd recommend many of the works of Philip Roth, including the Ghost Writer and The Plot Against America and Goodbye, Columbus. Bernard Malamud, including The Fixer and The Assistant. Almost anything by Isaac Singer, as already mentioned. ...

... to realize the extent of it. All I could think of while reading it was how complacent I had felt while reading Roth's The Plot Against America, thinking it was a nice fantasy story. Turns out that we may have been closer to it than I thought we were. Sometimes, maybe freedom of speech ...

... about Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic radio broadcasts in the US during the 30's, and kept being reminded of Roth's The Plot Against America, along with The Jew Store about American Jews in the 20's. It's kind of neat the way they all rolled together. Long story short, I would ...

American Pastoral is considered his best one, but I think The Plot Against America is a good one to start off with, but I am an also a big fan of history and the book is a sort of revisionist history novel (What if....Charles Lindbergh became President in 1940?)

... by Bill Bryson, 196 pages. 3.5/5. Review. Finished 3/8/2009. 13. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 391 pages. 3/5. Review. Finished 3/13/2009. 14. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, 2 ...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

... catch-up! Book No: Plot by Ansen Dibell The title says it all. Don’t lose it! Book No: ljbwell in 50 Book Challenge : ljbwell's 2009=new year, new list (Apr 6, 2009, 10:19am)

... deal, is murdered - found with a Star of David knifed into him. The book, the 1st of 3, blends Agatha Christie with Plot Against America - in fact, there are a couple references to President Lindbergh. It is at its most interesting when recounting the alternate history. It highlights ...

... me: David Gemmell's first book in his TROY series...and I was astonished at how LITTLE I thought of Philip Roth's THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, after hearing nothing but rave reviews about it for months. Have you even been surprised--for good or ill--by a book? Do tell...

... Dane AUDIO 53) The Minotaur by Barbara Vine AUDIO 54) Bless Me, Ultima AUDIO 55) Alex and Me AUDIO 56) The Plot Against America AUDIO 57) Polar by T.R. Wright unfinished 58) I'm Down A Memoir AUDIO 59) Eiffel's Tower AUDIO 60) A Lesson Before Dying AUDIO 61) The ...

... by Candace Bushnell 15. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason 16. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 17. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 18. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh 19. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Liosa I really loved: The Keepers of the House (I can't ...

#16> Talbin, I am the biggest Philip Roth fan around, but sadly I must agree with you about The Plot Against America. I thought the first two thirds of the book were very good, but the last third was a disappointment in my view, to put it mildly. Also, I recently read Rant by Palahniuk, which I ...

I just finished Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, which was okay but not great. I think I'll either read Choke by Chuck Palahniuk or Mosquito by Roma Tearne next (after cleaning the house, though :-( ).

I just finished Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, which was okay but not great. I think I'll either read Choke by Chuck Palahniuk or Mosquito by Roma Tearne next.

>133 Rebecca: I will have to read some more Roth - The Plot Against America was my first. Like you, I wasn't terribly impressed, but obviously Roth is not considered one of America's greatest living writers for nothing. Courtesy of my husband, I have Ghost Writer and The Counterlife on ...

13. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 391 pages. 3/5. Review. Finished 3/13/2009. In this alternate history, Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 US Presidential election based on an anti-war platform. He signs non-aggression pacts ...

I am a big Philip Roth fan, although I don't like all of his books. I particularly didn't like The Plot Against America which I found much too formulaic and didactic. For those who haven't read a lot of Roth, or only one or two books that they didn't like, I suggest trying American Pastoral, ...

>126-129 Actually, I can be easily distracted when I'm reading, so that fact that I was able to read The Plot Against America while in a waiting room says more about the book than about the surroundings. If I hadn't been able to get absorbed in the book, I would have been reading the newspaper ...

... tried time and again to read Philip Roth because he is so highly acclaimed, but the only Roth book I have ever finished was The Plot Against America. Frankly, I don't know why I did. I really have never been able to tolerate his writing style, and I did l not even like the story. Perhaps ...

Update: A few hundred pages into The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. I found this book difficult to get into at first and almost abandoned it, even though my husband thought it was very good. One thing I had a difficult time with was Roth's prose style. He uses lot of very long ...

I'm still making my way through The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. It started out quite slowly and I found it hard to get into Roth's prose style, but it's definitely picked up steam.

... genre and it was a Campbell and Locus nominee. I had not read any Roth before, and I'm unlikely to read any more if The Plot Against America is at all representative of his work.

... exploring the results of those changes). I think it is clear that Philip Roth wrote an alternate history when he wrote The Plot Against America, but it doesn't matter to me whether you want to call it science fiction or not.

... whole diversion is that it is just that, a diversion. The thread got to talking about Roth. I opined that his effort in The Plot Against America was mediocre at best. And Lola's biting comeback was to (incorrectly) snipe at one element of grammar that I had used. She didn't defend the ...

... are the ones I've done so far: 2000's 1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro 2. On Beauty – Zadie Smith 3. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth 4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 5. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 6. Atonement – Ia ...

... library, the only books I have not read are the ones marked "to read". It is pretty easy to check. The main problem with The Plot Against America is that as an alternate history, it is incredibly timid. The changing event is that Lindbergh wins the election in 1932 instead of Roosevelt (by ...

Talbin, We read The Plot Against America in our book club a few years ago and everyone found it incredibly thought provoking! Hope you find it so as well!

>122 I just started The Plot Against America. My husband really liked it, so I'm hoping I will, too.

I couldn't resist getting The Plot Against America by Philip Roth yesterday. It was on the discount table at the University of Washington bookstore. I'm seriously running out of room on my bookcases.

... Katherine when you're finished. I'm taking a bit of a break from the distant past this week (just started Philip Roth's The Plot Against America), but Katherine is still staring down at me from my TBR shelf.

... read and a good introduction to the poet and his times, but a I thought it could have had a bit more "meat"). Next up is The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

I am in alternative worlds with Manual of Detection and Plot Against America. Both worlds are rather weird and full of intrigue and deception and lies. Nothing like the real world. ;-)

258: And, despite Roth's status as a literary author, The Plot Against America isn't a very good alternate history. I find that fairly frequently when literary authors decide to slum in the science fiction world to show us "how its done", they often end up producing sub-par material for the genre.

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; book club read, very thought provoking

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; book club read, very thought provoking

... by Bill Bryson, 196 pages. 3.5/5. Review. Finished 3/8/2009. 13. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 391 pages. 3/5. Review. Finished 3/13/2009. 14. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, 2 ...

>66 mike, the only Roth I did not end up hurling forcefully from my grasp was The Plot Against America and that only because I love alternate history. Actually I thought it was chillingly possible on all fronts. Glad your Updikery is paying off in positive terms. >64 mckait, minx. Tempting ...

I liked the Zuckerman books but that's hardly late Roth, is it? THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA was the most wildly over-rated book that year. When I finally got down to reading it, I found it unconvincing and flat.

... by Rose Tremain, 2007 312. *Drop City by T.C. Boyle, 2006 313. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, 2005 314. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 2005 315. *On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 2005 316 *Saturday by Ian McEwan, 2006 317. *Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ...

... by Christopher Moore {7/30} 10. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pyncho {8/10} 11. Ravelstein by Saul Bellow {11/5} 12. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth {11/24} 13. Life of Pi by Yann Martel {12/15} 14. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon {12/18} 15. The Book of Night Women ...

#31 Plenty considered The Plot Against America to be SF. It was on the finalists list for the Campbells in 2005, it won the Sidewise and placed highly in the Locus Poll for that year. Many were disappointed it didn't make the Clarke shortlist. So it actually won an award unlike Farthing. ...

... restricted to alternative history, nor are attempted right wing coups. Which brings up another point, did SF appropriate The Plot Against America? Same speculative history, even more in the foreground than in Farthing, but I don't recall SF laying claim to it. What about Atlas Shrugged? It ...

79. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

... Stanley Robinson (Years of Rice and Salt), or Stephen Baxter (Voyage) . . . it's SF. When it's done by Philip Roth (The Plot Against America) or Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's Union) . . . it's literary fiction. When it's done by Robert Harris (Fatherland), Len Deighton (S ...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

I thought The Plot Against America was very good. The depiction of the creepingly fascist America of the 40s was very convincing, although the denouement was absurdly quick and pain-free. I liked it, though, and that's the only Roth I've read.

... or Saul Bellow, for that matter. That's one bent branch of the American literary tree I have little interest in. Roth's PLOT AGAINST AMERICA was one of the most over-rated offerings of recent years. The number of (usually) perceptive critics and authors who lauded PLOT was remarkable. Ano ...

From the sale table at the uni bookstore: The Reindeer People, Piers Vitebsky The Plot Against America, Philip Roth

... enamored of the other novels in that "series," I Married a Communist and The Human Stain. I especially didn't like The Plot Against America. Then there's the whole Zuckerman series, which I haven't read in ages, but I would recommend starting with the first, The Ghost Writer. His work ...

The plot against America by Philip Roth

... Fforde The Flood by Maggie Gee Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham The Possibility Of An Island by Michel Houellebecq Never Let ...

... bad. just started american pastoral by philip roth, read by ron silver. silver is perfect for roth. he was great on the plot against america and is doing great on this one too. oh and the story is developing beautifully.

... just started american pastoral by philip roth, read by ron silverman. silverman is perfect for roth. he was great on the plot against america and is doing great on this one too. oh and the story is evolving beautifully.

... and Koalamom on the group read thread about the same time. Concur with #85 mikeepatrick re: Roth, but did enjoy The Plot Against America

... Fforde The Flood by Maggie Gee Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham The Possibility Of An Island by Michel Houellebecq Never Let ...

The Plot against America by Philip Roth. I'm 99% sure this is right. "I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

... Doctor Who tie-in novels while the 'Books-still-open-but-probably-not-going-to-be-finished' pile includes Phillip Roth's The Plot Against America, The Sleeper Awakes by HG Wells and Colonel Tim Collin's autobiography and Homer's The Illiad (in translation I hasten to add), though I do dip ...

Never Let Me Go Saturday On Beauty Slow Man Adjunct: An Undigest The Sea The Red Queen The Plot Against America The Master Vanishing Point The Lambs of London Dining on Stones Cloud Atlas Drop City The Colour Thursbitch The Light of Day What I Love ...

... a guide to the genre by Sarah L. Johnson (LT author) A Short History of Nearly Everything on audio by Bill Bryson *The Plot against America by Roth on audio Wrapt in Crystal by Sharon Shinn The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim G ...

The Plot Against America was Roth's weakest novel in years, primarily because of the sf elements - the autobiographical segments were fine. The rest of the novels since late eighties have veered between the good and the very very good. >78 - but great novels do challenge your ideas if read ...

... Bring the Jubilee and Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan as book club reading. I've also got Philip Roth's The Plot Against America open and occasionally read a few pages of this whenever I have absolutely nothing else to do - it's not bad but it's not very engaging either... ...

My top five The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. I love revisionist history and this one was amazing. This was the first Philip Roth book I've read but I will pick up more of his stuff in the future. Vanishing Point more of a filler book than anything else but still wonderful. My head ...

The plot against America by Philip Roth

... idea for a game! Here goes.......... Everything is Illuminated for me now that The Red Queen is The Master of The Plot Against America.

How about Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, with a President Charles Lindbergh who made peace with Hitler so never went to the defense of England? Scary, though I think he kind of wrote himself into a corner and really wanted to get his characters out of the world he'd put them into - the ...

Okay... I think I shouldn't count them. But I have finished The Plot Against America yesterday. That makes (at least) five.

... har det bra Arno Geiger Es geht uns gut 4 Havet John Banville The Sea 5 Konspirasjonen mot Amerika Philip Roth The Plot against America 6 Mesteren Colm Tóibín The Master 7 Boken om Blanche og Marie Per Olov Enquist Boken om Blanche och Marie 8 "2666" Roberto Bolaño 2666 ...

... Siri Hustvedt, Moon Palace by Paul Auster and some others that I don't remember at the moment. Right now I'm reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

The Plot against America by Philip Roth

I loved The Plot Against America. My husband, who is more of an isolationist, didn't like it. I could easily see the events unfolding if Lindbergh had run for President. I think you have to have an idea of the State as a social construct to understand that book. A nonfiction book that looks at ...

... Civil War and WWI histories that my brother-in-law loves. Personally, I also liked The Yiddish Policeman's Union and The Plot Against America.

I am currently enjoying The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Are there more Alternative History novels on the list? Thanks.

... on audio is going right on my wish list. mejix ~ Ditto to you. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao and the Plot against America on audio are going on my wish list too.

... that, the two works that sold me on audiobooks were fiction works: the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz and the plot against america by philip roth. they still are at the top of my personal hall of fame.

You might be interested in The Plot Against American by Philip Roth.

I enjoyed Plot Against America and Sabbath's Theater. I just finished Red Lights by Georges Simenon. I suppose that for a French author, writing about an American, New England, holiday weekend road trip it was okay. The protagonist is fairly interesting, but frankly the novel seemed ...

#123 I agree with you. Plot Against America was the first Philip Roth I read and I rather enjoyed it. Then I read American Pastoral and decided that I didn't need to buy any more of his books.

#119 I actually preferred The Plot Against America to American Pastoral but I think I'm in the minority.

#104 rebeccanyc American Pastoral is on Mount TBR, as is The Plot Against America so I'll get around to it, er, soonish...

I've read The Plot against America - yay, I can finally play! I just finished Middlemarch by George Eliot - any takers?

... school for French A level, but I have not yet read it in English, though I recently obtained a copy on BookMooch. I read Plot against America a couple of months ago - very good, though the ending was disappointing and rather unrealistic.

27. The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth **** 357 pages Good book. My first attempt at alternative history, and it was pretty good! 27/50 (54%) 9,614/16,000 (60.1%)

... was in "a 60s state of mind" this book would have made more sense. 26/50 (52%) 9,257/16,000 (57.8%) Still working on The Plot Against America and Consilience and The Israel Lobby - should have more done by next week.

I have now finished: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth A very nice book from one of our (US) contemporary masters. A bit creepy, but that was intent. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Excellent food for thought, if a bit over the top at points.

... Levenda, respectively). It was pretty thought-provoking. My husband the noninterventionist lent it to me as a contrast to The Plot Against America. My mind tends to linger in the early years of the rise of Fascism and the roots of the Second World War. The occult played a role that, I think, ...

There is also The plot against America if I understand the meaning of alternate history correctly.

... Munich Pact. I think he wrote four Reinhart books, but Crazy was the first and the best. My husband will disagree, but The Plot Against America by Philip Roth was chilling. What if Lindbergh had run for president and won? I humbly mention my own book, about the little-known German ...

... your mother" and threw the book across the room. But I don't hate all of Roth's books; in fact I was quite impressed by The Plot against America and enjoyed The Human Stain. Perhaps if we could file Portnoy's Complaint under "puerile juvenilia" I'd be satisfied.

... Love in the time of cholera which I started in December. I also plan to read The picture of Dorian Gray. As for Plot against America, I enjoyed some parts of the book and I enjoyed the conspiracy plot. But, I also found a lot of the writing boring.

# 80: rebeccanyc, I agree with your assessment of The Plot Against America. I, too, am a huge Roth fan. I thought the book started out well and as always from Roth, there are some moments of exquisite writing. The phone conversation between protagonist's mother and the neighbor boy (I'm blanking ...

#75, Vonini, #77 amandameale, #78 SeanLong I was disappointed with The Plot against America too (and I'm a big Philip Roth fan), but not for the reason Vonini was. I felt Roth allowed his eagerness to make his political points to get in the way of character and story, and that it was too ...

#75 Vonini: I thought The Plot Against America was an excellent novel. I had no preconceptions.

>68 I read the plot against america some time ago. I found it a bit disappointing, but that was mainly because it was a different story than I had expected it to be. I would have liked a stronger emphasis on the alternate history angle. How are you finding it so far?

I'm reading A Walk in the Woods and The Plot Against America. Since my last post (work has been crazy) I've also read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which I liked more than I thought I would. Also I am the messenger, by the author of The Book Thief, which I loved. I've been looking ...

... of Sheba by Jacki Lyden The man in my basement : a novel by Walter Mosley Greek religion by Walter Burkert The plot against America by Philip Roth The other Boleyn girl : a novel by Philippa Gregory

I just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell this morning, and I bought a copy of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth yesterday so I'll probably start that tonight. If not, I'll finish reading A Pale View Of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro which I'm currently half way through. It's ...

... Roth actually mentions the woman who was my second grade teacher, and the rabbi who remains the "voice of sanity" in The Plot Against America, Rabbi Joachim Prinz (http://www.joachimprinz.com/biography.htm), stood beside me as I read from the Torah at my bar mitzvah at Temple B'nai Abraham ...

... but having no philosophical depth. The article mentions Philip Roth turning to sf - what it fails to mention is that The Plot Against America was Roth's least interesting novel in 15 years. The sf elements of the novel made the discussions about politics, freedom, etc, more heavy-ha ...

... fantastic. I think I was up half the night finishing it. Then I thought I'd grab one of the other 1001 books, and read The Plot Against America as my book #3, which I actually found rather disappointing. I was able to quickly read book #4, A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card, as that ...

... which was fantastic, and am now back to my usual form of one paperback book - Spring Moon - and one hardback book - The Plot Against America.

... Pessl First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde Honourable Mentions: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips Non-Fiction A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut The Definitive Boo ...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. I swear, I really am going to finish that this week. I have a whole bunch of books coming for Christmas and I want to finish this before I get them.

I devoured Philip Roth The Plot Against America this week past, so easy to read! Now I have just started Saul Bellow's Seize the Day (very short 115 pages) and after that plan on some of the other Bellow's list as my partner has a pretty comprehensive collection of his stuff.

A trip to town & a stop at the town library. The discard carts yielded: The plot against America Philip Roth, The mosquito coast A short history of tractors in UkrainianThe collected short stories of Katherine Anne Porter & Pastoral by Neville Shute in the 1944 edition.

... 16 was annoying too...I wish I was retired and had lots of time to look for more... because I am sure they are there 25. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - an excellent story (at least the fictional parts) and well written with likeable characters but I was bothered by the whole "altern ...

12. Vanishing Point by David Markson 13. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth I got these for my b'day, the Roth book is an excellent story and well written with likeable characters but I was bothered by the whole alternate history thing which really marred my enjoyment of the book. ...

... at 40 made me chuckle out loud. More recently, I really enjoyed the audio versions of I Married a Communist and The Plot Against America. Ron Silver does an incredibly good job -- really bringing the stories to life.

Well, I disliked American Pastoral but thought that The Plot Against America was a fine novel.

John Updike Saul Bellow John Cheever Philip Roth Barbara KingsolverEdna Ferber Jonathan Franzen Alice Munro Pearl Buck Louise Erdrich These are addition to those listed above. The 20th century has a lot of good writers. Those from the early part of the century have mostly ...

... the Civil War (Guns of the South, I think is where I started.) I also just finished The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, an interesting view of anti-Semitism in pre-World War II America. As one reviewer wrote: "A wonderful 'what-if' fable that seems to warn against our current ...

Plot Against America by Philip Roth

I hated Plot Against America, and gave up 3/4 through. His portrayal of the Jewish family in mid century Brooklyn was like watching and episode of "The Goldbergs" on televsion. I doubt many of you know who the Goldbergs were, but that's the only image that comes to my mind; the shrill, ...

... freed from it and he accepts his truth - that is why he calls for a crowd that should greet him with cheers of hate. Re The Plot Against America - the main problem with the novel is technical, Roth is incapable of melding the two strands of the novel together successfully. Too often the ...

Agreed on The Plot Against America. The ending felt like he was halfway done and his publisher called on Monday and said, "We need the book on Wednesday."

In the last few months, my big disappointments have been The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. With the Roth, I had wanted to read this book for so long and, after many false starts with it, finally got going ...

... exceptions to that and there are "literary" authors who write works of genre fiction - The Handmaid's Tale, The Road, The Plot Against America, etc. - that are well-received simply because of the author's standing. I think defining "literary fiction" is based more on what the work is ...

... Rice in hardbound for 99 bucks apiece! Also got I Am the Messenger for under 300, The Thirteenth Tale for 200, and Plot Against America for 250. And now my E-Purse total is 180. Which means I've spent 12,000 in Powerbooks in this year alone... and that's not even counting books from F ...

mhgatti's review of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. http://www.librarything.com/review/19356527 It seems to me that it must have been flagged by mistake.

Just finished The Plot Against America and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (for which I cannot get the touchstone working). Now reading The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo. It is the first of his works that I have read after hearing my boyfriend and my father rave ...

... aanmerking komen als ze doorgaat met zulke mooie boeken. Of Philip Roth, recent was ik echt helemaal onderste boven van the plot against america. Maar ja, daarnaast las ik maar één ander boek van hem dus dat kan ik moeilijk mijn favoerite schrijven noemen. O ja, ik ben onder de indruk van ...

I'm currently reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, which is really interesting. I didn't think I'd like the subject matter, so I'm surprised. I've been in a bit of a non-fiction binge lately. Must be the effect of being newly self-employed! Consequently, I've been reading ...

#146, My problem with The Plot Against America wasn't the premise, which I found interesting and not implausible; it was with the book itself, because I thought Philip Roth didn't create his usual complex characters and emotional situations but instead tried too hard to make a political ...

... possible anywhere, all you need is the right time and the right maniac leader and a climate of fear. I really enjoyed the the plot against america because hopefully it made people sit up and get uncomfortable about whether the holocaust could happen here.

... That is so cool that our readings of HP7 and A Thousand Splendid Suns were 'intertwined' for each of us. I agree that The Plot Against America has a hard-to-believe premise, but I still like the whole 'what if' thing, ('the path not taken' OR 'the path which could have been taken'). I ...

... weekend I read HP7 and A Thousand Splendid Suns in the same weekend. Quite the combination! I actually did discuss The Plot Against America with a book group. Most of them liked it. I just couldn't find it believable, and I hated the ending. I think I do put a lot of effort on my part, ...

(32) The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth Meh. I was really disappointed in this book. I am so intrigued by alternative histories and I had wanted to read this one for a long time, but it really did not do anything for me. I think that the only reason I finished it was because I ...

... in my opinion. I just read Everyman, and loved that as well; it's extremely powerful. If you're having trouble with The Plot Against America, try reading some online reviews; these might give you some of the background info you need to appreciate the book. I was lucky enough to attend a ...

... of it now than I did then. #28, strandbooks, you may still hate Roth if you read other books, but don't judge him by The Plot Against America. #17, hazelk, I loved Howard's End (touchstone not loading).

Fannyprice--I read Portnoy's Complaint and The Plot Against America and hated them both. I guess I'm just not a Philip Roth fan. Maybe I'll give him one more shot. Same with John Irving...I read three of his books and decided that was enough for me. I know some people love Roth and Irving, but ...

... I'm already reading. #5, fannyprice, as I've already said, as a Philip Roth fan, I am not enthusiastic at all about The Plot Against America.

Struggling to keep with Phillip Roth's The Plot Against America still. I've previously stated that I'll give up on a book if I don't enjoy it, but for some reason I am determined to finish this one, even though I frequently find it tedious.

... about 45 pages into hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea. Ive never read it. its a short one so i will probably start The Plot Against America or They Shoot Horses Dont They? by Horace Mccoy. probably the latter since its short and afterwards i'll read The Road on the plane to ...

I found the The plot against America to have an interesting and feasible storyline - but the book only got good at the end. For myelf, I finished Gone by jonothan Kellerman. If I have a reading vice, its my alex delaware novels. This one was as good as ever. I'm abot 2/3 way ...

I'm still working on The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth. It is slow-going because I find it a really depressing book. I have to take breaks and watch dumb-a** TV because I can't even think of an appropriate book to break the mood. Trying to confine myself to one book at a time right ...

#15 adobe4578, Although I'm generally a big Philip Roth fan, I was not enthusiastic about The Plot against America; while it was a good idea, I found it too contrived and preachy. #18 januaryw, I read Bury Me Standing many years ago and found it fascinating. I finished The Hudson: A ...

... done and i can see the appeal. Im almost done with Perfume: The Story of A Murderer and i will probably move on to The Plot Against America next, unless another book on my huge "to read" pile convinces me otherwise. but i'll get to it sooner or later.

... How is this handled in a French translation? #70, keren7, I am a big Philip Roth fan but I didn't like The Plot Against America. I thought it was an interesting idea, but much too obvious and preachy. Back from a week away: I read Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar ...

I've moved on from 1940s alternative New Jersey (The Plot Against America) already - sadly it's not because I've finished it. I am having so much trouble getting into anything right now. I didn't move too far, though. I'm now in Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 Illium, New York, where over half the ...

All my books are making me cranky right now. I am reading The Plot Against America, which deals with anti-Semitism, Backlash, which deals with feminist issues, and Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, which is pretty self-explanatory. I need to find a nice ...

I really liked this line from The plot against America by Philip Roth p301 "Soon my homeland would be nothing more than my birthplace." This well summarizes my feelings about immigragting as well.

I finally finished The plot against America by Philip Roth The book dragged and never really held my attention. I did enjoy the history at the end and I think the concept was fascinating - I felt it was realistic - but the story never really picked up. My fave part of the book was the ...

I'm in an alternate 1940s New Jersey where Charles Lindbergh has just been elected President - The Plot Against America. Already I am thinking about the issue of whether it is possible to admire the accomplishments of prominent people who espouse offensive beliefs - the boys in the story are ...

I am still reading The plot against America. I am about half way in and finding it a little eery and scary - because you can see how this situation could have happened -

... Anne Fadiman's At Large and At Small. PS keren7, #11, I am a big Philip Roth fan but I didn't like The Plot Against America at all, although I sympathize with the sentiments. Will be interested in your reaction to it.

... City which was enjoyable and I think does a good job of imparting its message. Good and fast read. I am now reading The plot against America - am just starting it now.

... the science fiction group of tags dominates as in The Calcutta Chromosome Others which have higher ownership like The Plot Against America the ratio is much lower. In that case science fiction + sci fi + sf = 16 tags. That can be compared with politics (and synonyms) at 23 tags, ...

I'm a big Philip Roth fan, but I was incredibly disappointed in both The Human Stain (just not believable) and The plot against America (when I was done with it, I had a serious case of "is that all there is?") ... also I was particularly peeved to read Daniel Dennett's Consciousness ...

#79, 91 I am a big Philip Roth fan, but I didn't like The Plot Against America and it is many, many years since I read Portnoy's Complaint. His work can be uneven, but I consider American Pastoral his masterpiece.

... and French - Sitt Marie Rose (4) Hanan al-Shaykh - The Story of Zahra, Beirut Blues (5) Emily Nasrallah - Flight Against Time All these authors are Lebanese/Syrian and most of these novels reflect on the Lebanese civil war in some way (its my area of research, sorry!). If ...

... Hounds - Caitlin R. Kiernan 5 American Gods - Neil Gaiman 6 Against Depression - Peter D. Kramer 7 Against the Tide (The Council Wars) - John Ringo 8 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Solomon 9 Emerald Sea - John Ringo 10 Terrible S ...

April 26. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 27. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 28. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 29. End of Story by Peter Abrahams 30. The Cellar by Richard Laymon 31. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan 32. Time's Arrow ...

... tastes differ! I enjoyed The Human Stain but didn't think it was in the same league as American Pastoral and, as for The Plot Against America, Ifound it much less well written than usual for Philip Roth and much too driven by his desire to make a point (about today's politics, by ...

... well I felt the same about American Pastoral - it was very dark and I avoided Roth for years. BUT last year I read The Plot Against America which has a different tone and is an excellent and enjoyable book.

... good book; it just didn't "speak to me." I liked The Human Stain somewhat better; and I have been thinking about trying The Plot against America. It is the exact same feeling I had about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Corrections. I know I am reading a well ...

... Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Yevgeney Zamyatin - We Philip Roth - The Plot Against America Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here

... month, I picked it up the other day. I've just read: Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here Philip Roth - The Plot Against America Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five and I'm currently reading: Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale So I figure I'll read it ...

Reading The Plot Against America I was disappointed with the science fiction element of the novel, I'm not really sure why Roth chose this method to explore anti-semitism, often the domestic and the political failed to blend properly. The strength of the novel lay in the evocation of a young boy ...

This is fascinating! I've read reviews of The Plot Against America, but had never heard of Farthing. When was it published? Could Roth have been borrowing the idea and taking it in a different direction? Or is this a case of two people being indepedently inspired by the same basic idea? Alter ...

Both books are set in an alternate-history 1940s. (Farthing is in 1949 in Britain and The Plot Against America is in 1940 in the United States.) Both have Charles Lindberg elected president of the United States, and both (especially the Roth book) then extrapolate what would have happened ...

Currently: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Up next: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

... . I'm still in an alternative fascist 1940's USA, specifically Newark, New Jersey and Washington, DC in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

... by Jeanette Winterson How I Became Stupid by Martin Page The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy February The Plot Against America by Philip Roth The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte March Som ...

... Animal Farm and I'm currently reading Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. On the TBR pile are Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Can anyone think of some other books which would fit ...

11. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

... Alteration - Kingsley Amis The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

... Bechdel Book Lust by Nancy Pearl Plus... books I bought for the other half, but I'll probably read too... The Plot Against America by Philip Roth The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde Something Happened by Joseph Heller The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek ...

hazelk, #9, I was disappointed in The Plot Against America too, and I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I found it much too obvious. But a friend just told me, about another writer, "every great author is entitled to one bad book." bookmarque, #10, I think Tales of the City is one of those ...

... found the style exhausting 4 - The Persian Boy by Mary Renault. Not my sort of thing - shouldn't have borrowed it 5 - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. I was disappointed.

... of Being by Milan Kundera Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Kayaking the Inside Passage by Robert H. Miller

Actually, everything I'm reading right now is on the list: Anna Karenina, The Plot Against America, Turn of the Screw and House of Leaves. I tried House of Leaves once before and became extremely annoyed with it, but I'm liking it a lot more this time around.

amandamale, if you liked The Plot Against America, try American Pastoral, which I think is Roth's masterpiece -- well, one of them anyway. And, while I finished The Inheritance of Loss, I agree with you that its plot and characters were largely unsatisfying; I liked some of the insights ...

Finished The Plot Against America by Philip Roth which was excellent. Could not finish The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai because it was going nowhere. I don't mind a book with not much plot but this one just didn't keep me interested, despite some beautiful writing. Reading now: In ...

I agree 100% with your thumbnail assessment of The Plot Against America. The political aspects were far-fetched, to say the least (although I think he may have been deliberately heavy handed to make his point). But the story about being a Jewish kid in Newark in the 1940s was wonderful! Rot ...

... ? Agree with your recommendation of the Flashman series - George McDonald Fraser is a very under-rated writer. Read The Plot Against America, which I found a little disappointing after Roth's previous novels. I enjoyed the narrative of Roth and his family but I wasn't completely ...

I just finished a "What If?" historical novel, if that counts -- The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth. The idea is that, instead of FDR, anti-semitic Charles Lindbergh gets elected President in 1940, after running on a strong isolationist platform. It's a good yarn, and I'm a Roth fan, so ...

Finished The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - very enjoyable. Continuing The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Started The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

... assume you accidently missed a word when writing, under the "Strongly Religious" category, "...a government that legislates *AGAINST* the shutdown of the body ..."? Second, I'm not sure the phrase "America-first" is an accurate label for those who support the missionary campaign for global ...

I'm reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth which I'm enjoying. I prefer this to American Pastoral which I found a quite brutal experience.

... Nicole Krauss - very nice use of language. Also started The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories by Michel Faber. And The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - I never knew that Charles Lindbergh had been a U.S. President.

... and today we see award nominations for people like David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas and awards for Philip Roth for The Plot Against America and Amitav Ghosh for The Calcutta Chromosome. Of course most of those aren't SF writers but there does seem to be some ghettoisation going ...

... that don't use aliens or techno-turbocharged solutions to get the alternate-history-ness going. How about The Plot Against America by Philip Roth? Or The Yiddish Policemen's Union for another extremely mainstream example? Others will have more ideas about this, I hope. An ...

What happens when a mainstream writer produces a work that could be said to belong to a genre? For example... Roth The Plot Against America Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Eco The Name of the Rose Auster The New York Trilogy Carter Nights at the Circus Are these ...

... away, without hesitation, The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth. I picked it up from a bookcrossing meet because I had read The Plot Against America earlier this year, which I thought was good but not excellent. The Ghost Writer though is a little gem, not much more than 100 pages, and a ...

... it has been so lavishly praised, it read to me as an overlong children's book). Similarly, Philip Roth's last novel, The Plot Against America is a sf stable, an alternative history. Ian Banks was told told by his publisher to use another name for his sf since it could confuse his ...

... media icons viewed with childlike naivety in preparing for a possible resurgence of a Holocaust, see also Philip Roth, The plot against America? is sobering, particularly when I consider that the Nazis slaughtered 1.5 million children under the age of 16.

... like it, try It Can't Happen Here, which is a pretty vicious social satire and is a predecessor to Phillip Roth's The Plot Against America Thalia: If you think Americans cannot brew strong, tasty coffee, you have not been to my house. I can make a cup that will feel great going ...

... Breaking Her Fall by Stephen Goodwin is set in Upper NW. Really good family drama. Phillip Roth's The Plot Against America has a few interesting scenes in DC towards the end.