The Dying Animal

"Her Name Was Consuela Castillo..."

Philip Roth's texts, especially The Dying Animal, are way ahead of me (16-Years-Old) but I secretly picked up this gem. It is shocking, disturbing at times, and extremely sexual in nature, but all the more savorful. We follow once again the famed David Kepesh and his enticing sexual adventures up until he meets Consuela, a Cuban student whom he developes more feelings for then he likes to admit. The story is told to us through Kepesh's direct words and he reveals so much to us that you insantly develope a connection, growing more impossible to believe that he is a fictional character. The story takes twisted turns and leaves us with the empression of a man who just never grew up, or, better said, grew with society's tweaks and morphs. Highly recommended book, the movie some what does it justice, but to really delve into Kepesh's lifestyle read this great page-turner.

Little Emotion

The Dying Animal had a great story that could have been evolved to something more capturing for the general reader. The beauty of the women and the tough encounter with cancer were themes with a lot of feeling and emotion but Philip Roth created this story into something very cold hearted and with very little emotion. This book could have been much more emotionally in depth as well as being erotic but was more emotionally surfaced.

Roth close to his worse

This book illustrates much of what is wrong with one of the great American writers of the past half- century. The sheer heartlessness of this book, the cold intelligence, the lack of real human feeling makes this work another small lurid trip of the Roth-ean imagination at its worse. The great Portnoy will make you laugh and cry, and Patrimony is a gem of telling the father- son relation, and even the late American pastoral has some of the real Rothean best stuff in it. But this is Kepesh junk on the very same level as 'The Breast' When you read it you feel as if you have done something slightly immoral and ugly.

ROTH AGAIN

Mr. Roth is a brilliant writer and this story reflects that. In anyone elses hands this book would not work. Enjoyable, readable.

An average book

I don't mind the sex scenes that others complain about but I sure didn't find this book to be anything special. It also annoyed me that it is so short in length. Being a fast reader, i detest books that I can read in a short sitting and yet the publisher charges regular prices.

Great Book

Philip Roth does a masteful job interwining sex, desire, evolution and ambition to not only reveal the inner character but tell an intriguing story.

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