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The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer
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it was amazing
bookshelves: 5-stars, 500-plus-pages, war, recommended-novels

As a young woman I swore I would never read anything by that bastard Norman Mailer. I'd read "The Executioner's Song" and thought it okay but I despised Mailer as if from a personal feminist vendetta. In fact, I still do. BUT this book knocked my socks off. I loved it. So much for prejudice.
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Reading Progress

Started Reading
August 4, 1998 – Finished Reading
December 4, 2007 – Shelved
January 21, 2009 – Shelved as: 5-stars
June 21, 2010 – Shelved as: 500-plus-pages
September 21, 2011 – Shelved as: war
December 29, 2019 – Shelved as: recommended-novels

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message 1: by Lawyer (new) - rated it 4 stars
Sep 19, 2014 07:19PM

Lawyer Yes, Mailer had not yet become the raving chauvinist yet. He produced a near perfect war novel. Then by 1965 he produced An American Dream in which the anti-hero rogers the Latino maid and murders his wife. Not pretty stuff. I understand your feelings about swearing not to read him. This is one to knock anyone's socks off.


message 2: by Howard (new) - rated it 5 stars
Sep 20, 2014 02:08AM

Howard I agree. This is one of the great World War II novels. In fact, it is one of the great war novels. More than that, it one of the great novels, period. I have read it three or four times. And I may read it again.

Can you tell that I like it?

Too bad the movie was so mediocre.


message 3: by Sarah (new) - rated it 5 stars
Sep 20, 2014 09:59AM

Sarah I sympathize with people (self included) who swear a writer or artist off for reasons of conscience or politics. But it's sometimes the raving lunatics that produce the best work. The work is worthy of attention.


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