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I saw the movie first and it made me want to read the book. The book, of course, is more involved than the movie and added more insight into the characters. I was very involved with the main character and intrigued by his conflict with his college environment and era. The story has an unhappy ending and I'm not sure that helps the message of the story. The liberal protagonist is squashed by the conservative institution. There is a hopelessness about striving for progress. What is the message? Don't even try? Conform or parish? Even though I would have it end in a more triumphant way, I enjoyed the characters, the era and the situation.


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Indignation Philip Roth Books Reviews

Don't be put off by the sexual experience this young man has. Read to the end, and mourn the world we inhabit.
I read this book in two sittings, absorbed by the quality of writing and the depth of characterisation. It deals with themes of substance and examines them in detail. Aside from that it a fascination portrait of American at the time of the Korean War, capturing the change in attitudes and values as society changes.
Great book. I didn't know anything about it until I recently saw the movie. The high point for me is portraying what it was like to be on a college campus in the 1950's---the school rules, the social scene and the students.
The book arrived and I decided to check it out---didn't put it down and stayed up past my bedtime until I finished it.
A wonderfully written book that I could not put down. The story is in many ways my story parents who show their pride in a son; a dad who goes into a worry phase about his son. A son who grew up as I did, i.e. working with my family and taking on some distasteful chores; going away to college and life opening up on whole new vistas - sharing a dormitory room, a relationship with a very special girl. Roth is at his best in this story.
Seemed like a very basic story line a little crude in the way it has been written, very little charecter development people popped in and out of the story and you never know what happened to them. A diffinite fast read questioning if I would reccomend to my gal pals might to my guy friends.
As a long-time reader of Roth, I found this brief little novel a pleasant surprise, filled with humanity and pathos that really grabs you by the end, that creeps up; on you slowly and steadily. I also love the form of the brief novel or novella that develops a single idea fairly thoroughly and with skill. I'll bet this did make a fine film--if it ever plays in our small university town!
Coincidence that I got this book and finished it just days before Roth died. It is typical Roth in most ways -- the growing Jewish boy with an overwhelming if loving father who rejects the family's religious beliefs and goes off to find himself, including his sexual self. Not a spoiler will not say what so suddenly happens in the story -- something you sort of thought might happen at the end, but putting it in the middle was a startling if creative way to tell the story. Roth's youth and J.D. Salinger's Catcher are clearly two of the American classics.
I saw the movie first and it made me want to read the book. The book, of course, is more involved than the movie and added more insight into the characters. I was very involved with the main character and intrigued by his conflict with his college environment and era. The story has an unhappy ending and I'm not sure that helps the message of the story. The liberal protagonist is squashed by the conservative institution. There is a hopelessness about striving for progress. What is the message? Don't even try? Conform or parish? Even though I would have it end in a more triumphant way, I enjoyed the characters, the era and the situation.