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I don't normally update as I go, but this time feels warranted. 74 pages in and it has been a bit of a slog. I know it's going to get good, but so far Roth seems struck by that Modernist affliction of needing to chart every small detail of the narrator's psyche, and his perceptions of his contemporaries' psyches, on repeat and ad nauseum.

Gah! I don't usually do mid-book updates but this is too much.

Went into this after reading in its front pages about how "literary", "complex" and "philosophical" various reviewers found it. Well, it's not. It's waffle. It's the everyday masquerading as the profound. Really basic stuff, with no craft behind it – how this has been described as literary I've no idea.