★★★★ A clever novel about superheroes (and supervillians) in the real world. The premise was great, and the writing was extremely entertaining. I was a little disappointed in how it ended – I thought he could have used the climax to create much more interesting relationships between the characters (particularly between the two narrators). But it was a clever idea nonetheless, and I tore through it in three days. Even for someone who didn’t grow up on a steady diet of comic books, I got a kick out of it.

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★★★★ Admittedly my first exposure to Philip Roth, I read this on the plane from Kansas. I’d heard his prose tends to be lengthy, but I didn’t find that here – every paragraph seems carefully measured and precise. A pretty heartbreaking piece of work.

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