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    <body><![CDATA[     The best thing about Mailer's book is the inclusion of a large number of photos of Picasso and friends as well as well as color plates and black and white prints of the the artist's work.  Mailer takes Picasso to WWI and through his Cubist periods.  Depends on long passages from both contempora...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78858707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mindblowing... recommended reading for artists of any medium.  Mailer does a great job of telling Picasso's story through a mix of historical facts, excerpts from memoirs, and a novelist's interpretation.       ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think I would appreciate Mailer's account of Picasso's life, but I ended up not only enjoying it, but wishing he would've written about his entire life. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mailer the asshole reporting about how much Picasso was an asshole...it takes one to know one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointing only because Mailer phones it in more than a little bit by excerpting quite liberally from the memoirs of Fernande Olivier, Picasso's first serious lover. Granted, Mailer doesn't try to deny or mask this strategy, but it still rankles, especially when I was expecting more analysis and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9013020">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in Paris; fun to read about the early life of Picasso.  Well researched.  Good story.  Don't need to be an artist to appreciate]]></body>
    
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