Simultaneously amusing and highly intellectual. Last year, I read "Henderson and the Rain King" by him, so I've become used to Bellow's style. When I read him, I don't worry about all the intellectual stuff that is foreign to me; I just enjoy his satire and his insights into the human condition. I love that he brings out the weirdness in human thought processes, and yet sustains the feeling of normalcy.
I became interested in Saul Bellow during my Mordecai Richler jag, because like Richler, he was a Jew from the Montreal area. However, Bellow moved to Chicago when he was 8, and this is another city that interests me.
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