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    <body><![CDATA[The recent news aboput Mailer being on his deathbed reminded me of my one and only attempt at reading his stuff. I must have gotten through at least the first third of this book but godalmighty... pretty much just an excuse for vivid descriptions of buggery, buggery, and incest. Also, buggery.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7877124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bloated and exhausting, this is still an exhiliratingly perverse phallocentric psychodrama as set in the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Not as sharp or original as Mailer's fiction (and non-fiction) of the 60s, it manages to hit some heights amidst its 700-plus pages: the hallucinatory opening in whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2751740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the reviews below suggest, this will be a 1 star or a 5 star for you, but unlikely to be anything much in between.  I adore Mailer - for his cockiness, his absolute conviction of his own brilliance, for the sentences whose structure make me drop my jaw and laugh, for insight, and for buggery.  Wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7350312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If D.K. Broster's books strike one as being overly-clean for their hidden emotional subtext, this novel gives the absolute opposite impression of dirtiness and filth. The mud of the Nile pervades the whole, as does the sheer, stinking physicality of human sex, even in the most palatial surroundings....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70802709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extraordinarily bad novel.  Mailer did some homework about ancient Egypt, but his representation of it is unbelievable.  Indeed, the characters are unbelievable.  I was hoping to get some an angle on that ancient culture, hoping for something on a par with Mann's magisterial Joseph and Hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74048871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book to learn more about Egypt before I traveled there. It took so long to read! Since it is fiction based on fact, it worked its magic and I learned a lot, but it was very long, and at the end the pages started all falling off the spine, and that just made me want to finish it even more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59486784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has lived on the lower shelf of my night table for about five years now.  I read, put it back there (for safe keeping), and several months (to a year or so) later will pick it up again and refresh.  It is a good book, and I enjoy Mailer's writing style.  Finishing this book is on my 'bucke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78629733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oddly enough this was a found book.<br/>It took forever to read, which is unusual for me, however it was very interesting and informative re: ancient Egyptian concepts of rebirth, afterlife, etc.<br/>If it wasn't so long, I might even re-read it, which I almost never do!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a good return for the time invested, even though I didn't finish it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my cup of tea.  Too many words.  I just gave up on it after about 15 pp.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Garbage disguised as good literature]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't finish it!     Just too lofty and prosey, I guess.   Maybe I just didn't have the patience to read something I couldn't well identify with.    ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm... got through 100 pages... was still pretty much lost and gave up. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See Lisa's comments for this book posted in March 08. Bloated and overwrought is only a miniscule portion of this book's problems. I actually had an opportunity to hear Mailer read from this book at Wesleyan years ago. I bought it because he was so crotchety, and because he was Norman Mailer. Lesson...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29197942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ancient Egyptians are awesome!  I don't really know how much of the book was accurate, but I learned a lot and it was fascinating.  It spans four generations, four classes, four stories, and they're all interesting.  Warning: the first 30 pages are misleading... it gets MUCH better! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book and got halfway through it and  had to put it down for just the general shock of it. I was really disturbed by what I was reading at the time and had to put it down until I could read it with more of an opened mind.  I'll try again one day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alas, this was the book I was reading when the news broke that Norman Mailer had died. I say &quot;alas&quot; not just over Mailer's passing, but that this book isn't very good. I made it through 70 pages before having had my fill. Oh well. Maybe some other time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm an Egyptian Historical Fiction junkie so that means as long as it's not popfiction, I'll read it.  Norman Mailer gets raunchy every couple of pages but also tells a beautiful story and delves deeply into the psychic minds of the characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that cured me, once and for all, of my deranged obsession with having to actually finish a book once I started it. All those hyphenated names - ugh. The eye just refuses to move across the page and the mind numbs. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[IMO, this might be Mailer's greatest book -- certainly the most literary and most interesting and best researched and best written.  You might gather that I liked it.]]></body>
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