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This chunkster has been in my TBR basket for awhile now. Ready to Read 📖

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Spent a bit of time reading outside before it gets too hot and asking myself why I picked 1000 page book for a reading challenge. 🙃 Any other Ravenclaws out there? I‘m betting there are. 💙 #readharder2022 #ravenclaw

Interesting & the style is a departure from Mailer's typical prose...maybe a little choppy. Did not engender sympathy from me for Gilmore & Nicole, rather the opposite effect, became disgusted with them. But a book that can make you emote strongly either way is a good one.

I finally finished this tome. This book is split into two books. In Book 1, we get to know Gary Gilmore during the three months before he murders two people. Book 2 is all about the trial and the ensuing circus surrounding his sentence. I personally found Book 2 much more interesting. I felt the writing was even better. In Book 1, I grew to dislike Gary and Nicole. The writing seemed choppy, possibly to convey the state of mind of the subjects.

So glad I finally read this door stopper! Excellent, thorough book about Gary Gilmore and the lives he impacted. I appreciate Mailer‘s emphasis on the murdered victims and their families. I believe he paid an honorable tribute to them. I feel sad for Gilmore‘s gf, Nicole. She definitely had a hard life and I suspect he forever traumatized her. So many tragedies in this story. I highly recommend Mikal Gilmore‘s book, Shot in the Heart. #MountTBR

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"...[Mikal] had just been afraid of Gary for years. Mikal, reading the headline on that one terrible July night, OREGON MAN HELD IN UTAH SLAYING, felt shame. "It could have been ME." He could have been the same victim of the same mindless robbery. He hated his brother then. His brother had no respect for the horrors of waste. His brother did not know that when you robbed a house, you ruined it for the people who were living there."

I‘m told Norman Mailer was the keynote speaker at my college commencement. Unfortunately, I have no recollection of it. 😱 So this is my Saturday of knitting another nest for orphaned birds, and diving into his Pulitzer Prize winner. 🐥 📚Hopefully some of this will be done outside on the porch.🌞

This is intimidating.

Listening to another #Pulitzer winner.

I am so glad I read this book. I have very strong feelings about this topic but this book really humanized this important issue. It amazed me all the people and processes that go into the Death Penalty.

Change of plans, time to read this 1000+ page book.

It's huge but there's a lot of white space inside. Despite my aversion to #chunksters, I'm diving in.🤞💪 🏊

I rode my bike to the library to pick up this hold. I had no idea it was such a #chunkster!! Guess I'll really be getting my workout on the ride back home. 😰😰😰

Book: The Executioner‘s Song by Norman Mailer
Author: Eudora Welty
Movie or TV Show: ET
Food: enchiladas

#manicmonday @JoScho

Bought this big junk of a book today from the TRUE CRIME section...anyone read it?

@GarthRanzz I seemed to always visit Zion in the heat of the summer! I haven‘t read the Mailer, but I remember how much of an “up yours” Gilmore‘s insisting on a firing squad was. I may have to read it. My daughters met Shanon Hale at The King‘s English too. Thanks for the memories!

At 1,092 pages, it feels like I've been reading this book for AGES. Trying to finish it today, so I can start Clinton's book as soon as it arrives tomorrow! #stillwithher

so many pages!

At over 1000 pages it was painful to get through this overblown saga. Elevating a psychopath and his slut of a girlfriend to folk hero status demonstrates Mailer's quest for noteriety. That this book received lauditory kudos as high journalism is ridiculous. 200 pages max would have been totally sufficient. Don't waste your time.

I meant to post this the Saturday before last, when I got them but obviously that did not happen. My latest haul from B&N and it was a big one! Among all these beauties, I finally got the journal I have been eyeing for a very long time as well as an ink and quill set! I had heard of The Executioner's Song but never read it. Those little clips in the side are genius bookmarks that I am just now finding out about and I'm hooked!

I keep repeating the cycle of reading some of this book and then setting it aside. I have been doing this for about a year and I'm only through a third of the book. It's interesting but perhaps too long? 😱#ilikebigbooks #andicannotlie #booktober @RealLifeReading

Sexist vomit.

Bloated and seriously dull. Can't see why this won the Pulitzer. Wish I'd bailed.

Taking a little train trip today, and knocking a chunk of this behemoth off on the way. How this won the Pulitzer is beyond me, but I will not give up!

After my disappointment with the Kitty Genovese book, I needed some classic true crime and the university library provided. Here we gooooo

I was expecting this book to be like Capote's In Cold Blood, but it wasn't even close. There were a few compelling parts, but most of the book was overly detailed. The second half dragged on and on.

I don't know what my problem is with Mailer; I like his writing and the depth of his characters, yet I haven't been able to finish one of his books. I bailed on this one and have been trying to finish Harlot's Ghost for 3 years. Maybe I should try a shorter one. This book had some sections that were very compelling and I couldn't stop reading, but then there would be long dull sections that seemed like tangents. It was a very meandering plot 😕

Using the Pulitzer Prize Centennial as an excuse to read three winners in 2016. In light of all the true crime buzzing around pop culture, first up is Mailer's mammoth 1980 winner about ill-fated Gary Gilmore.