The three miles of walking in my bus commute (a mile to the bus, a few minutes on the bus, a half mile to work, and home again) has meant audio books again. Baking cookies helps too.
This was my first Philip Roth and I liked it fine. Apparently the book, or Philip Roth, has been criticized for sexism. Delphine Roux* is a feminist, but that's not why she's a negative character. She's a negative character because she's nutty as a fruitcake. Also some Amazon reviewers deplore his so-called digressions; I saw them as explanatory asides, but perhaps because I was listening not reading. One reviewer said all the characters had the same narrative style, and I know the reader spared me that (if I would have noticed anyway) since he gave Silk, Zuckerman, and Farley different intonations.
Next up is American Pastoral, and next month is my turn to choose the book from Audible.com. I'm thinking of either War and Peace or Underworld (not that Don DeLillo isn't also an RDC author), but neither my walk nor my baking is enough to get me through such long books in a short enough period to do them justice.
*I just looked it up, but listening I thought it might be spelled Rue. Street doesn't make a lot of sense as a name, but Regret does.