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I originally read this in 1970 while in college. I especially liked Mr. Sammler's (Saul Bellow's) observation on life in NYC at a time when it was all falling apart around them. NYC went bankrupt in 1973 for some of the very reasons he tries to relate to in his own life. I bought it to read again, and now that I am nearer his age, the insights are even more astute for any student of twentieth century history. Whether or not he intended to, Mr. Bellows reveals the downside of too many intellectuals in one place and time. I recommend this book to younger readers who have not had the opportunity to read the type of novel that was available to us then. Full of deep observation, rather than a lot of "airport fiction" that clings to the "less than 18 words per sentence and 14 sentences per paragraph" rule of modern publishing. Bellow is at his best in this novel, but you have to give him a chance and listen to what he has to say. Everyone eventually ends up where he is writing from.


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Mr Sammler Planet Penguin Classics Saul Bellow Stanley Crouch Books Reviews

Simon Brett is a terrific author and I have loved every one of his mysteries, so when I found this one available as a reprint edition, I ordered it. I was sadly disappointed to find that it is an iUniverse-printed book, and the formatting/printing is awful -- sloppy, extremely tiny type(unnecessarily so, considering the fact that it's a trade paperback and thus has plenty of room) and looks like it was done on a copier (dim). I have never returned a book before in my life, but I could only read a chapter of this one before I decided the type formatting was unbearably difficult to read. I wish very much that someone else was making Brett's books available for purchase (buying audio versions until I can find decent print ones). To top it off, the publisher even ignored a glaring error on the front cover -- has the main character's name as 'charles Paris' -- obviously the editors were relying on spellcheck and didn't observe that Charles is the person's first name. Ugh!
"Mr. Sammler's Planet," makes the case for sticking with an author's big hits before delving into their more exotic offerings.

Saul Bellow, of course, is/was a famous writer whose big triumphs were "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Herzog."

highwayscribery decided upon "Mr. Sammler's Planet," thanks to its being mentioned in a column by David Brooks of the "New York Times."

In "Children of the '70s," Brooks sought to put a damper on recent enthusiasms for 1970s New York as a dangerous, but freewheeling and artistically sympathetic urban landscape that, on balance, was much better than the white flight and capital disinvestment that characterized it.

highwayscribery, who grew up in that New York, indulged just such a flight of fancy in his post memorializing the recently deceased downtown poet, Jim Carroll.

Brooks noted in his piece that, when the city tried slum clearance on the upper West Side, "Crime did not abate. Passivity set in, the sense that nothing could be done. The novel, 'Mr. Sammler's Planet,' by Saul Bellow captured some of the dispirited atmosphere of that era -- the sense that New York City was a place of no-go zones, a place where one hunkered down."

Some.

"Mr. Sammler's Planet," to the extent that it is about anything, fleshes out the post-Holocaust relationships between Jewish folk in New York their mutual aid toward one another and the friendships forged by their unique and tragic recent history.

It is, briefly, about a pick-pocket Sammler watches and with whom he later experiences an unfortunate encounter. It is about the pending death of a close friend and benefactor. It is about his wacky daughter and her personal quest to make a father whose claim to fame is a long-ago relationship with H.G. Wells relevant to fast-changing times.

But these story threads are a skimpy skeleton upon which Mr. Bellow hung a lot of issues swimming around in his mind. It almost works until he gets into a discussion with Dr. Govinda Lal from whom his daughter Shula has stolen a manuscript.

The exchange is characterized by long-winded discourses from both men on the nature of things, which, to their minds, cannot be described in elementary terms. The two gents hold court with only the rarest authorial interjections to remind us these are characters talking and not just a stream of raw, unplugged Bellow.

The author was a Nobel Prize winner whose thoughts are novel and well-expressed. There is certainly valuable currency in "Mr. Sammler's Planet," but less of a story than one might expect from someone quite so celebrated.

Bring on "Herzog."
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Love Saul Bellow but this one was too much for me. I just couldn't get into it. Bellow experimenting, I think.
A prescient, timely book. Easily misunderstood or falsely judged by non-fans, this exploration of a "registrar of madness" is impeccable with just one incidence of a unBellow-like overshooting. Yet, it should give us hope...

A Ruthlessly contemporary bite of New York life ripped out by strong mandibles...providing a nourishment still...
A profound and psychologically complex classic. I have read all of Bellow's fiction, and this is his most mature work in my opinion. Not a light or easy read, but brutally honest and touching. Every page gives food for thought.
I originally read this in 1970 while in college. I especially liked Mr. Sammler's (Saul Bellow's) observation on life in NYC at a time when it was all falling apart around them. NYC went bankrupt in 1973 for some of the very reasons he tries to relate to in his own life. I bought it to read again, and now that I am nearer his age, the insights are even more astute for any student of twentieth century history. Whether or not he intended to, Mr. Bellows reveals the downside of too many intellectuals in one place and time. I recommend this book to younger readers who have not had the opportunity to read the type of novel that was available to us then. Full of deep observation, rather than a lot of "airport fiction" that clings to the "less than 18 words per sentence and 14 sentences per paragraph" rule of modern publishing. Bellow is at his best in this novel, but you have to give him a chance and listen to what he has to say. Everyone eventually ends up where he is writing from.