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Exit Ghost I liked a lot until the last third or so, during which I liked it a little; not sure if Roth's energy fell off or mine did. There's palpably a fall since Operation Shylock and Zuckerman Unbound, the novels whose structure it follows pretty closely--that fall's actually part of the point of EG, but unhappily so.

Anything else to say? Zuckerman might as well be a different man, in all these books. His memories and biography overlap some, that's all. A wise enough statement about people, really. Not that personalities don't have their degree of fixity, but different portholes are looked out of at different points in the cruise. By older and older eyes. How did Roth manage even one rebirth?

My father's 74 today. Same age as him.