Mailer

[Gerry]

Haven't read it yet, what's the name? A lot of good books get by me, can't
read them all. But I started reading Mailer in high school, "The Naked and
the Dead". For riveting story telling set in white trash america "The
Executioner's Song" has to be the best book I have ever read. The writing
was so deceptively simple, taken from tapes and thus mostly dialogue. I
thought it was a work of exquisite craftsmanship. Somehow he managed to
suppress being judgmental. The fact that he could suppress his typical
mastery of the complexities of English and come up with a tale that could be
read by a 5th grader blew me away.
G


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> > Thanks, Mike,
> > For the exquisite report...
> > Frances
> >
> >
> Yeah, thanks, Mike.
>
> The Oswald novel was breathtaking, particularly considering the old and
> worn ground he was covering. He went to Russia and visited burnt-out KGB
> guys in sanatoria, reminiscing on how they nicknamed Lee Harvey 'Valiant'
> because he was such a chicken, so lazy and dissolute.
>
> A wonderful body of work from the guy, for sure.
>
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