The Adventures of Augie March (Audible Audio Edition) Saul Bellow Tom Parker Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
The Adventures of Augie March (Audible Audio Edition) Saul Bellow Tom Parker Inc Blackstone Audio Books
I can hardly believe it took me so many years to get around to reading this novel. Augie March is one of the unique figures in American literature, a follower who constantly finds himself the object of manipulation by others. While some readers have insisted that they found him unlikeable, I felt a great deal of sympathy toward him and found myself pulling for him. Augie is also self destructive and that infuriated me at times, but I eventually came to expect it.I will say that the opening chapters made me work. This is not a quick read. But once I fell into Bellows's style and got accustomed to the philosophical monologues both from Augie and other characters , I found it hard to put down.
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The Adventures of Augie March (Audible Audio Edition) Saul Bellow Tom Parker Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
Surpassed every fiction book I've ever read and is now my all-time favorite (sorry, Rushdie; Satanic Verses held the prize for 20 years).
A brilliant writer writes brilliantly and produced as brilliant book. Not an easy read Augie March can require a beside dictionary and a world history encyclopedia finishing this extraordinary read gives one a satisfied feeling of accomplishment.
It's a good read and well worth your time but it's not the easiest read and definitely has its dull moments.
Bellow's Augie March is a Chicago orphan, always an outsider, penniless, on the make, usually on the wrong side of the law. It's not so much what he does or happens to him that makes this story wonderful; it's the minute descriptions of people, from the main characters right down to the ancillary ones.
The book is fascinating and at times overwhelming. Bellow endlessly juxtaposes street growls with soliloquies that would make Shakespeare proud -- and often from the same character. At times, this is brilliant; at times, off-putting. If Don Quixote took place in Chicago (and Mexico, and New York), this would be it.
Augie March is an astonishing book written by a great observer of the human condition. Bellow's writing style takes some getting used too but once you get into the rhythm after maybe 15 pages it becomes a page turner. Bellow is particularly adept at describing situations and characters with a richness of depth not encountered in other authors.
Two lists of the 100 best books in the English language ninclude this book along with such heady company as "Moby Dick," "Bleak House and "The Heart of Darkness." That said, I have decidedly mixed emotions concerning "The Adventures of Augie March." The book was a difficult and challlenging read. I am ever grateful for a tome which enhances my vocabulary with such word as copal, caracul and acedia. My take is the Bellow, at least in part, was deliberately showing off his knowledge of arcane mythological biblical, historical and mythological recondite allusions.It did keep me at Wikapedia. He referred to an Italian named lord who upon looking it up was a fictional character fabricated by Bellow to describe someone pompous and pretensious. What would have the reader done in the pre internet days? I could not fathom why Bellow shoehorned the Mexico trip into the narrative I found it so tedious that I left 2/3 of the way into Augie's journey.
The dictionary definition of picaresque is "of or relating to an episodic style of fiction describing a rough, dishonest but appealing hero." Without a it
doubt this books encompasses this description. It paints a vivid picture of America notably but not limited to Chicago and Jewish live in the 1920s to 1940s.I especially like his writing style, often luminous but on occasion complicated to the point of being tortuous. Certtain passages paint a noteworthy word picture of various persons and events. Augie himself is a most engaging if flawed character. The rise and fall and rise and fall and once agin rise of his ever resourceful brother Simon is a superb character delineation worthy of the best such in literature.
Despite the above cited faults or perhaps, in part because of them, and the demands of the reader "The Adventures of Augie March" deserves to be in the pantheon of great English language novels.
I can hardly believe it took me so many years to get around to reading this novel. Augie March is one of the unique figures in American literature, a follower who constantly finds himself the object of manipulation by others. While some readers have insisted that they found him unlikeable, I felt a great deal of sympathy toward him and found myself pulling for him. Augie is also self destructive and that infuriated me at times, but I eventually came to expect it.
I will say that the opening chapters made me work. This is not a quick read. But once I fell into Bellows's style and got accustomed to the philosophical monologues both from Augie and other characters , I found it hard to put down.
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