When I started reading this book-- after maybe the first few chapters--I thought it would end up being a dud. The writing didn't impress me, and the premise seemed goofy. Norman Mailer writing a first-person narrative of Jesus' life? I mean, I know Norman Mailer thought of highly of himself as God, ...
This World War II classic novel spent 62 weeks on the best seller list. With half a platoon of fully fleshed out characters, this book is a tribute to miscommunication, giving several viewpoints of each action in the main story - the capture of a fictional island in the Pacific Theater of Operation....
TBR Busting 2013The Guardian: Friday 13 May 1949 02.08 BSTPlace the cassette on 'hold' - went into this blind and didn't realise that it is 721 pages long. That is a lot longer than I am prepared to dedicate to this subject at this time.
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/56894947393/another-side-of-norman-mailerThings were going pretty swell for me reading what the old coot had to say and absorbing his endless rants of wisdom, enjoying all the advertisements and side notes regarding people, places, and things. By the time I got to The W...
Complicated story, and I wish it would have lasted longer, let's say at least through Hitler's twentysomething years.. It stopped right where his actual life should have started! But it was a very good book, i could not let it out of my hand.
I personally am a very big fan of books that speak of war, and this one was just perfect! It captures the essence of the human mind in contact with things like cruelty, death, pain, being constantly bossed around and having to do things you do not want.. Though it has a lot of characters, the author...
I think this is the book that scared my Penology prof. She doesn't scare easily. I was a little worried about reading it because of that. I'm not going to say that some of it isn't scary, but more of it is thought provoking, at least to me. I think my favorite chapter was the one about Racism in Ame...
Love this book - my favorite quote comes from it -- of the media (he was thinking mainly of the press, of course) --- as "silent assassins of the republic"
About ten years ago, I immersed myself in personal reading about Hilter and the Holocaust, including a biography by Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, trying to understand how Hitler could have done what he did, how he became evil incarnate. I was no student of psychology, but I suspected fam...
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