I hate to be the first person to give this book a 1-star rating but after about the first 50 pages or so I found it a TORTURE to read. Zadie Smith is a talented writer, and I had very much enjoyed her first novel, but I could barely make myself finish this one. Some of the problems with it: I didn't like the main character enough to really care about what happened to him. Also, (I'm Jewish myself but) I found all the stuff about Judaism tiresome.