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"Deadly boring. Has there ever been a more overrated novelist than Saul Bellow? This roman a clef about Allan Bloom revels in disgusting physical details re the title character: i.e., the whiter-than-milk flabbiness of his corpulent frame, etc. Yuck!" Permalink

"Dreadful. Whatever Lahiri once had, she's lost. It's hard to believe that the author of something as formidably passionate and "lived" as The Namesake (as well as the more persuasive stories in Unaccustomed Earth) would now churn out thin gruel, w..." Permalink

"A great film. Might be too intense and too incorrect for the cream puffs weaned on "content" warnings." Permalink