|
Loading...
... to the page limit on a book....I am with the 50 page folks. I can't finish books any more which I don't like. I finished Harlot's Ghost and wanted to throw it off a bridge for having wasted considerable reading time I could have devoted to other books. ... OTHER thrift store today. They are:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
A Can of Peas by Traci DePree
My Nine Lives by R ... Harlot's Ghost. Heavy in both senses of the term. ... saw you reading such a massive tome in high school!
Also, I still haven't read The Company either, so I'll be reading Harlot's Ghost with nothing to compare it to.
(Didn't the Littell novel also end around 1963, or am I confusing his novel with Mailer's?)
Anyway, I'm looking ... Harlot's Ghost was the first Norman Mailer book I read. It was WAY back in high school and I just loved it. I have read some of his other works, but none quite grabbed me in the same way. When I was in college, I had the honor of meeting him. I think I behaved with the proper composure - it was ... ... his novels, but something less thick than The Company (which I'll read after I go through my copy of Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost). I'm thinking The Once and Future Spy, Legends, The Defection of A. J. Lewinter, or An Agent in Place, but I'll take whatever turns up my way.
Rig ... ... backpacking, so had to swap books with people at hostels, and post some home, but I still regret leaving a copy of Mailers Harlots Ghost with a lovely lady who put me up for a few nights.
Was it Robin McKinley that wrote The Blue Sword? I love that book, yet another that disappeared ... Have any of you read (surprise) Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost? What did you think of the book? How did your arms recover from its unrelenting weight? *grins*
I'm not sure whether or not to pass off that second question as a joke. My arms are really aching after a couple of hours spent ... I'm not much of a CIA fiction fan, but this one seems to be a touchstone in the genre, like Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost, which I'm also curious about.
The Robert Littell titles I'd really like to read are The Once and Future Spy and Legends, but I guess I'll be "good" and read ...
|
|
