The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author | 
panThe book has been hailed as the best book from WWII. I don‘t get it. Was pretty good for the first 600 pages, but… the ending left me disappointed. After writing for 600+ pages Mailer didn‘t conclude his book so much as he stopped writing. The deus ex machina end to the patrol was right out of a high school writing assignment. I expected so much more from this book. It was for me the literary equivalent of overwrought empty calories.
Working on an episode about friendship amongst authors (or friendships that went sour/enemies who became friendly) There's Vidal/Mailer and Hemmingway/Fitzgerald and Hawthorne/Melville... Anyone got any other examples?
pickThis is one of the best reads of my life. The pace of the story and the amazing characters have been with me for twenty years. Maybe a little longer, but who‘s counting.
Current read has this list of “important books” on the back, and the only one I‘ve ever heard of before is the tagged book. Any opinions out there about the rest of them?
panFinished this as it was falling apart. Not sure what to think about this book - I didn't dislike it, but I have no intention of reading it again.
Sometimes missing the bus is not too bad.
Finally! It's taken me a while but I'm starting to care about what's going to happen further in the book.
1. Norway
2. Impossible to answer.
3. The Gentlemen Bastards
4. A Philadelphia Story
5. Buffy and Gilmore Girls
6. Nirvana
7. Green
8. Everything except crime and horror
9. High school teacher
10. No pets
#meetthelittens - great idea @maich !💚
Sorry! Feel like I'm spamming you all with so many posts. This is the last one for today, I promise. #maybookflowers day 1: #maysmostanticipated.
so-soLong and boring and occasionally enlightening. I'd recommend watching The Pacific instead.
