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Really? This was my least favorite of all of Roth's works that I've read so far. It was amusing enough that I wanted to finish, but some of the observations were rather superficial and I don't think it's aged quite well (to be fair, it is a satire of Nixon politics; one wouldn't necessarily...

In Cold Blood Meridian by Truman McCarthy Winter's Tale of Two Cities by Charles Helprin

You've basically confirmed every suspicion of Ellis that I've ever had. I may get around to him eventually, but I feel absolutely no pressing need to do so anytime soon.

Currently reading Deborah Eisenberg. She's touted as the American Alice Munro, but never having read Alice Munro, I am in no position to tell. So far, so good though.

Karl Marx: Selected Writings edited by David McLellan is the best Marx anthology possible -- period. The Communist Manifesto -- slim and arresting as it is -- fails to capture the attention as his more philosophical works do. It's difficult -- a lot of philosophical and sociological works not...

Yummy. Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

I like Cat's Cradle more. Also of note are Mother Night (my personal favorite) and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Everyone else seems to like Breakfast of Champions, but I think it's overrated.

Deus ex machina ending of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Have you tried Anthony Burgess' other works? Perhaps The Wanting Seed?

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Operation Shylock by Philip Roth

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His name was Elijah Glass. I've seen that movie once, but the movie, I suppose, has some staying power. EDIT: I was wrong. Perhaps less staying power than I originally thought. :p

Roth is my absolute favorite author. The works closest in style and scope to those works you've listed are The Counterlife, Operation Shylock, and, of course, the ending of his Zuckerman American trilogy The Human Stain (which probably also happen to be my three favorite of his novels)...

7 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 7 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 6 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 9 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 6 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 6 The Handmaid's Tale by Magaret Atwood 6 Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 8 A...

Gone in the Wind type stuff in the sense it's part of the American slave trade or in the sense that it's chattel slavery?

The Name of the Rose: Umberto Eco Invisible Cities: Italo Calvino In Cold Blood: Truman Capote Winter's Tale: Mark Helprin Life of Pi: Yann Martel The Time Traveller's Wife: Audrey N. The Stories of Paul Bowles Dusklands: J.M. Coetzee

Excellent point. Many contemporary thinkers refer to the current epoch as one of "wage slavery." Are you speaking of chattel slavery, or just of exploitation in relationships in general?

One word: Hegel. EDIT: Another one is needed. Nietzsche.