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Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-11-10 21:15:11 +0000

RIP Norman Mailer

Male chauvinism aside, he was an <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iV4XU0Bw9vt2x2FMDF7CDT_TN8jQD8SR12H80">entertaining dude</a>.
I don't think I ever read one of his books in its entirety, but his newspaper/magazine articles were fantastic, and his account of the Ali/Foreman fight in "When We were Kings" is an unbounded joy.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-11-11 02:55:55 +0000
In 1998 I was in the one and only book club I've ever done. I got the first crack at suggesting a book, and we did "In Cold Blood," and it worked out great. Alex Zavracky posited "Armies of the Night" second, and hardly anybody finished it as virtually everyone was put off by Mailer's me-first writing style. The club was completely killed when Jake Schulz was convinced we could read "Light In August." Everybody hated each other after two <i>unreadable</i> books.

Having said all that, "Armies of the Night" went back onto the nightstand and will get a look-see hopefully before the end of the year.

Have I ever mentioned how much I loved "When We Were Kings?"
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-11-12 01:37:39 +0000
Bullshit. You were in the ill-fated Ulysses book club a few years back, too.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-11-12 06:48:54 +0000
"Book Club Bullshit"
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-11-12 12:22:37 +0000
Oh yeah... Kind of easy to forget about the ill-fated "Ulysess" seeing as I went to not a single meeting.
Posted by virtue on 2007-11-12 14:28:21 +0000
Well, there was only the one...
Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-12 22:36:58 +0000
The insolvent book club - nice.
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