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Throw Him a Lifeline, He's Drowning!, Nov. 25 2003
Poor Tommy Wihelm! This is a sad spectacle of a novella. Sad, in that you can't help but feel for this poor guy. Tommy Wilhelm has squandered his life. He chased his dreams to Hollywood.... and failed. He got into business... and failed. He got married and had to boys... and failed. He tried to become a commodities trader... and failed.
I can't help but think of Biff Loman, when I read this one. Tommy Wilhelm's life is a story of bad choices and missed opportunities. We all have experienced moments like this, but Wilhelm's whole life is based on this premise.
As the story comes to a conclusion. Tommy Wilhelm's life begins to crash down bit by bit until it looks totally hopeless. And really, it is totally hopeless.
Tommy's plunge into a torrent of tears is a fitting end to this sad, sad story.
Bellow's writing is lean and direct. This book is a great case- study of futile, life planning. It is well written and worth your attention.
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Packs a Mighty Wallop, Nov. 5 2003
How is it that a novel of such importance, by one of our country's premiere men of letters, has been reviewed by only one other Amazonian? Goodness, the state American Literature is in. We are a country losing our soul, much as Tommy Wilhelm in Bellow's "Seize the Day." This book should be appreciated by more readers, plain and simple.Imagine a man. A child of a man, really, who never quite grew up and never took the time to know himself. He took pills instead. He took the easy route. He painted his life into a corner, and the paint... ain't... drying. Tommy can you hear me? Tommy, it's time to smash the damn mirror and all those bottles of pills and all the bum advice you take from that quack who lives above you in that New York Hotel where you have breakfast with your successful dad every day, the same dad who practically begs you to grow up and go back to your wife and kids and fix what's wrong in your life instead of blaming others. Sound familiar? Sound like a parable for a nation gone fat with overindulgence and extended adolescence? And yet it's such a personal story. It's just one day in a man's life... a day-long trial for a man who can't make things right because he pushes when he needs to pull. We all maybe need to push a little less and pull a little more is all I'm saying. Bellow's work represents a life so eff'd up that there may be no solution. Again I ask, sound familiar?
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Lard have mercy, Mars 17 2003
"Seize the Day" is a sad little novel about a man, lost in the wilderness of his life, whose struggle "toward the consummation of his heart's ultimate need" can succeed only when he surrenders his composure to his deepest emotions, that secret place in all of us from which we beckon our tears. The one day in which the entire novel takes place completely encapsulates his past, present, and future into the portrait of a man mired in his environment.The man is 44-year-old Tommy Wilhelm who, like some of Bellow's other fictional protagonists Augie March, Eugene Henderson, and Moses Herzog, is a little piece of the chaos of twentieth-century urban America distilled into a single confused character. Wilhelm is a native New Yorker (although it's obvious his author is not), a failed actor, and an unemployed former sales executive. He is separated from his wife, who is always selfishly demanding from him money that he doesn't have, and his two sons. His only financial support now is from his father, a successful physician who is annoyed by his son's lack of discipline but nevertheless brags about his past accomplishments to anyone who will listen. Wilhelm has a friend named Dr. Tamkin who professes to be a psychologist, has many various interests but dubious talents, and persuades him to invest his last dollar in lard commodities. Tamkin, a world traveler, has told Wilhelm that he "had attended some of the Egyptian royal family as a psychiatrist," a statement that evokes an image of the biblical Joseph prophesying for the Pharaoh seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine; but Tamkin's optimistic expectation for lard is all profit, no loss. His philosophy is that the future is not worth the worry; live for the "here-and-now": seize the day. He is undoubtedly a charlatan, but in Wilhelm's eyes he means well. One of the novel's themes is atonement, which is signified by the reference to Yom Kippur. Wilhelm is not very religious and has not planned to attend a synagogue, but he recognizes the importance of saying Yiskor for his dead mother; his sincere but idle threat to the unknown hoodlums who vandalized the bench next to her grave will not suffice to honor her memory. Ironically, the place where he ultimately atones is the funeral of a man who is evidently not Jewish (open casket, presence of flowers) -- and he weeps with the knowledge that death is all we achieve from life. Seize the day, indeed.
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A Great Read for Writers, Janv. 6 2003
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Suffering...we've all had it...or it's coming...is Bellow's theme of this work. I've never read an author who described heartbreak and tears so well as Saul Bellow. My face was red and hot and strained by the time I finished the book--he moved me! Suffering--admitting and recognizing that anguish might be your temporary lot in life--has never been so beautifully penned and honestly told. The more I think of the book, the less I like it for the story, but the more I appreciate its truthfulness in describing how problems can stack higher and higher and higher and nobody will help you.I think you'll find what the main characters "seizes" after a few days of thinking and observing life on your own. Read it! It's only 120 pages packed with a lot of insight.
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A deep psychological work, Avril 3 2002
This is a story about relationships and alienation. It is a psychological work by Bellow, getting in the head of a man coming to grips with his mid-life failures. It also shows his relationships with a tough love (or just tough?) father, and manipulative friends. As you read it, you struggle between repulsion, sympathy and identification with the lead character. The book is very accessible and easy to read given the intellectual pedigree of the author. Even still, one is left at the end wondering, "What did I miss?" While the reader may be left perplexed, it is a sign of the depth of material pushed into such a short novel. I'm left thinking, "It's a good, deep book" - perhaps a more in tune reader would find it a great one.
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Carpe Diem, Déc 3 2000
It is true, that on the exterior this book seems to be a great bore. We are subject to the lead characters complaining throughout the story, and the whole time we want to shout at him to grow up. It can be very frustrating and stirs up hostility towards the character. Which is a wonderful achievement by a book. The book is very good because it actually does stir up emotion. Most of all, it makes a major statement about the human condition in America. How many of us know people like Tommy Wilhelm? Read it and you'll find that you know plenty.
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Saul Bellow -- Seize the day, Nov. 23 2000
This is a book about a man who is tired of life in NY City, tired of his father, tired of everything...the writing is a little hard to understand at first, but soon enough one can understand it. The fact that this book (or novella) is 107 pages (with relatively big font size) is good, because one can read it quickly. I was able to read the whole book in 3 days. I do recommend this because it is a GOOD book.
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MY REVIEW FOR THIS MOVIE, Nov. 13 2000
"DEAD POET SOCIETY" I like this movie, because I was moved by it. Perhaps, this movie tells us that you don't have to obey your parents and try to be honest to yourself and live anything you like!! In this film, all children obey their parents. The school the children go to is very strict. One day a teacher named Mr.Keating came to school. Mr Keating is a free-thinker. Because of his appearence,children's thinking is changing day by day. In this film, my favorite charactor is Mr Keating,because he always smiling and I like his way of thinking. The most impressive scene for me is when Mr.Keating leaves the school and students stand up on their desks and say, "Oh, Chaptain my chaptain" I couldn't control myself and moved into tears. At last, I think this film is worth seeing very much , please rent this film and watch it!!
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Exquisite and painful., Aoû 21 2000
This film is one of Robin Williams' best performances. Perfect as Saul Bellow's protagonist, Williams plays Wilky Adler, a man approaching an inevitable mid-life crisis. Wilky is pathetic and pitiable, an everyman who could never get his life in order. Devoid of redemption, this film is familiar and painful, with stellar acting from Williams, Joseph Wiseman (Dr. Adler), and Jerry Stiller (Dr. Tamkin).
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Freudian and fun., Aoû 20 2000
A conversation with dad. This text is one of the most effective pieces of literature that encompasses the post-Freudian aftermath. Though the text goes "nowhere," it takes the reader to the realm of thought. Recommended.
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