false <![CDATA[The Naked and the Dead]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166503751m/12467.jpg 12467 27 Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon.This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.Written in fascinating detail, the story follows a platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing. 2223651 1948 The Naked and the Dead total:1333|5:420|4:561|3:273|2:62|1:17| 1333 5304 2531 162 3 2 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 06:26:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 06:35:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 17:07:29 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 17:52:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 13 00:09:06 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 00:29:51 -0800 2008
This book has some glaring anomalies in it that are easy to pick on, but one must remember the age of the author at the time of writing. Such as:

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It was really visceral. The characters were great. The pacing was great. The psychologies were cool. Read it.

Hearn was a huge inspiration too. I think that he's my favorite character from any book.


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The novel charts the invasion of a Pacific island largely through the eyes of a single platoon and i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 07:50:35 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 18:02:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 11 14:23:59 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 15:29:12 -0800 2009 The Naked and the Dead is War and Peace as written by Larry David. It has all the Tolstoyean hallmarks: dozens of main characters; an ever-shifting third-person point of view; and lengthy, turgid digressions on History, Philosophy, and the like.

It also has a thoroughly m...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 22:55:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:16:32 -0700 2009 The Naked and the Dead as the great anti-war epic that planted seeds of counterculture in a fertile postwar angst, I should know that. Flowery praises aside, Mailer has something here.
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It is both astonishing and obvious that this is a first novel. Mailer's depth of knowledge about the US in all its white male aspects is surprising. But his need to write "THE GR...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 14 18:11:29 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 07:11:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12467