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Indlæser... The Executioner's Song (original 1979; udgave 1998)af Norman Mailer
Work InformationThe Executioner's Song af Norman Mailer (1979)
   1970s (49) True Crime Books (22) » 18 mere True Crime (35) 501 Must-Read Books (294) Favorite Long Books (242) Rory Gilmore Book Club (166) Swinging Seventies (121) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I'll be honest saying I did not finish this epic story (1000 pages) In fact I only made it through the first 300 and got worn out by all the exposition. I added it to my list since it had been recommended due to having read "In Cold Blood" which in my opinion is head and shoulders better than this book. Being a screen writer, producer and avid reader, I find the overuse of back story and exposition not to my liking though I'm obviously in the minority since the book was heralded by many. Regardless I found it tedious and far too slow paced for my blood. (  ) Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |  Gary Gilmore saltó a los titulares de la prensa con motivo de su ajusticiamiento, en la Penitenciaría Estatal de Utah. Porque, aunque hubiese podido prestarse al largo forcejeo de las apelaciones y demás subterfugios legales para aplazar su ejecución, Gilmore prefirió la muerte a la angustiosa espera en el corredor de la muerte. Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 | Unforgettable! The prose style of this narrative-realistic novel is unique in my experience. It is a book that I devoured and one that has stayed in the back of my mind for years as one that I should reread. I continue to wonder at the genius of Norman Mailer as exhibited in this creation. He creates the world of Gary Gilmore in a way that made this reader feel it in a visceral way. It takes great writing to do that and keep you reading for hundreds of pages. Mailer nailed it. (  ) jwhenderson | Aug 26, 2022 | I'm still taking it in, but it's an amazing book. For me, it got a bit slow when talking about all the people who were trying to get rights and contracts for books, movies, etc. But very captivating nonetheless. At times, I thought about when I read "In Cold Blood", which was such an incredible book. This book ranks pretty close to that, in my opinion. Mailer is a great writer and story teller, and this book demonstrates that skill in a moving way. If you question how people might actually find compassion for a person who took two innocent lives in a brutal manner, you'll have to read the book. (  )1  btbell_lt | Aug 1, 2022 | I'm sure this masterpiece will stay with me for a very long time. It's the only work that I know of that can seriously challenge In Cold Blood for the claim of greatest true crime literature of all time. The attention to detail and the portrayal of a time and place is magnificent. Some reviewers may have been frustrated by the level of description, but I think that was largely the work's point. The fine and banal detail of a scene like a person's last night alive points out the absurdity of capital punishment and maybe also more generally all life. I would classify this one as an absolute must-read in American Literature. (  ) ProfH | Mar 2, 2021 |
 Mailer's massive study of the Gilmore case is unlikely to have the impact its author expected. All journalism dates, and this is not so much the higher as the longer journalism: 1,056 big pages and far too many facts. The value of this sedulous accumulation was presumably intended to rest on the uniqueness of Gilmore's rejection of penal liberalism, but Gilmore has ceased to be unique. Style will not preserve the book, since it has no style... What we might have expected from The Executioner's Song is a Mailerian mystico-astrologico-metaphysical expatiation on the significance of Gilmore – quasi-existential victim-hero – in a culture increasingly selling out to evil, but there is no commentary as there is no style. The question must finally be asked: why bother? Granted that every human soul may be worthy of 1,056 pages, why should a cold murderer with a certain capacity for love and poetry be deemed worthier of such expensive celebration than the harmless grocer of Gissing's New Grub Street? HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime. No library descriptions found. |
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