Norman Mailer dies at 84 - DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate

**Kemapreedasse** · 11-10-2007, 09:26 PM

Go out and read "The naked and the dead" immediately. It's an extraordinary book.

**mikeyyuiok** · 11-11-2007, 03:57 AM

As is "The Executioner's Song" -- a masterpiece.

But he hadn't written anything worth reading in almost thirty years, and was basically a blustering irrelevence dining out on his celebrity notoriety while watching Philip Roth, of all people, become the actual "heavyweight champion of postwar American letters."

Still, RIP.

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mikeyyuiok Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 502 Senior Member	As is "The Executioner's Song" -- a masterpiece. But he hadn't written anything worth reading in almost thirty years, and was basically a blustering irrelevence dining out on his celebrity notoriety while watching Philip Roth, of all people, become the actual "heavyweight champion of postwar American letters." Still, RIP. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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