Portnoy's Complaint
Reviews
Profane yes, but hilarious and cutting. One of the most compelling extended monologues I've read.
what can i say i’m an asshole
2 stelle solo perché si tratta di Roth. Un libro veramente brutto che a quanto pare non sono stata in grado di comprendere.
Strong start, but as Portnoy devolves, so does the humor.
Capolavoro si può ancora dire?
Who knew you could write about masturbation for 274 pages. It’s entirely unnecessary, but here we are.
Funny from beginning to end (often laugh-out-loud funny, and then laugh-even-more funny when reading bits of it aloud to your spouse) but with a core of awful lonely sadness. It reads like something between stand-up and eloquent but extemporaneous speech. This is my first Roth but not my last.
It was all downhill after that masturbation chapter. Not to whine or seem prudish. And I know that books about self-involved assholes can be good. I just don't think that this one was anything but redundant.
