Part One was strong and moved along quickly, even held my attention long past the time of night when I should have given up trying to read coherently. Part Two, unfortunately, did not, dragging interminably. I found myself skimming through quite a bit of the second half, until I got the section re...
Feeling far too happy? - read this, it'll plunge you head first into gloom akin to this goldfish.------------------------------------mp3 Unabridged and read by Jonathan ReeseBLURBIFICATION Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer PrizeIn what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious wri...
4 for 3 - a pressie from dear M, October 2009You may call me D.T. That is short for Dieter, a German name and D.T. will do, now that I am in America, this curious nation.
Sure there's a castle in this book, and it's pretty wonderfully constructed, but it's also made out of shit. Reading this book was an awful, soul-crushing experience. No wonder Norman Mailer died. This book killed him.
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.
It has been years since I read Norman Mailer's {book:The Naked and The Dead}, an outstanding novel of World War II and a difficult act to follow. I've started some of his other books but never really got into them. He's had a couple published recently, {book:Harlot's Ghost} and {book:Oswald's Tale},...
If D.K. Broster's books strike one as being overly-clean for their hidden emotional subtext, this novel gives the absolute opposite impression of dirtiness and filth. The mud of the Nile pervades the whole, as does the sheer, stinking physicality of human sex, even in the most palatial surroundings....
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