Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" Is Out In Paperback

[Paladin]

I bought my copy this afternoon.

It's the one about America going Nazi under President Charles Lindbergh in 1940.

Anybody else read it yet?

[jonnyblitz]

1. I checked it out of my local library when it came out..

I really liked it. :thumbsup:

[davidinalameda]

2. good book

strongly suggest everyone read it

[TimeToGo]

3. Well . . .

Well, I wish I could say I liked it, but I didn't.

Interesting idea, but not very well executed. The ending was really bad -- silly really. And it gives me no pleasure to say that.

[Kenroy]

4. I'll have to check it out...

Roth is supposedly on the short-list to receive tomorrow's Nobel Prize in literature, along with Joyce Carol Oates.

[indepat]

5. Think how disastrous an extreme RW president would have been in 1940:

think how disastrous in the early 21st (PNAC) century.

[abluelady]

6. I read it it, too.

I didn't like the ending. I think Roth didn't know how to end it and just wanted to tie it up. But I thought the book was very good, but terrifying.

[catbert836]

7. The main body was interesting

The ending... not so much.
It's kind of disbelievable that after Lindy crashed, his vice was deposed, FDR came back in, Hitler was defeated and then everything happened exactly the way it has in our timeline.
I did like it a lot better that Harry Turtledove's two-dimensional alternate history novels, though.

[Paladin]

9. GAWD---DAYUMMM!!!!!

Put a Spoiler Alert in, next time you release details like that!

Oh well---guess I'll read it anyway......

[catbert836]

10. I'm sorry!

I thought that it was understood people posting here had already read it! Please forgive me!

[Paladin]

11. No Problem

n/t

[Onceuponalife]

8. It sounds interesting

but I didn't like Roth's "American Pastoral" very much, then it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, so go figure...

[jonnyblitz]

14. I liked it. I can understand why others wouldn't.

I liked "I Married a Communist" by him also.

[Kathryn STone]

12. I am reading it now it's great I'm burning through it

I am aa Philip Roth fan so that helps. I'm about 175-180 pages in it

[SmokingJacket]

13. Roth is possibly the best living American writer.

Plot Against America is terrific, so is The Human Stain and American Pastoral.

Roth is smart. It's a pleasure to be in his mind.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

15. I was disappointed in it

I wasn't the plot, but maybe the way it was put together. Maybe I'm just not a Roth fan. :shrug: