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    <body><![CDATA[I came upon my copy of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son much like I came upon my copy of the Bible. The Bible I found on a heap of trash in an alley in my youth. I took it home with me. Mailer's account of the events I found on a nighttime walk i had through the streets of Wicker Park...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15036574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first experience with Norman Mailer is far removed for the hard-drinking, womanizing, sailor-mouthed vision I had of the late author.  In fact, The Gospel According to the Son is a stately, brief, and theologically sound exploration of Jesus' imagined gospel.  Mailer writes with a deft, Biblical ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46304444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first I have read of Norman Mailer so how it fills in his library I cannot say. Taken from what it seems the gospel story of Mark Mr. Mailer writes as Jesus telling his account of what really happened, what he thought and what miracles really happened. This has been such an age old quest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10508107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I must first admit that it is the height of pretention to write a fictional autobiography of Jesus Christ, but this is Norman Mailer we're talking about.  And in this case, it's Mailer at his creative and witty best.  he takes the gospel story and tells it like Christ might tell it over s'more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5217235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just plain stupid. I grabbed a copy at work back at Media Play while on the NYT Paperback Best Sellers, and accidently walked out to my smoke break with it; <em>dicunt ei Caesaris tunc ait illis reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo</em>, I thought to myself, and into the Toyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38786732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was puzzled by this book. I expected a more creative, more provocative approach (something like The Autobiography of God by Franco Ferucci). It followed the text of the Gospels very closely, except in a few cases, where Jesus as narrator claims that the Gospel narrators stretched the truth.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had left my book at work over a weekend and wanted a quick read.  Had this on my shelf for awhile and REALLY enjoyed it.  Gave some good insight into what Jesus was going through during his time on earth a really good sence of his humaness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you can get past thinking it is blasphemy to think Christ may have had to learn line upon line and was often confused about what to do next, this is a fascinating book.  I really enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tells the story of Christ as a historical figure with skepticism about his &quot;magical&quot; endeavors....ie did he really turn water into wine?? or was there another explanation?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Date read is approximate.  I'm pretty sure it was 99, though.  Read this when I was exploring various religious paths, forget if I read a review of it first or if it was word of mouth.  At any rate, it's Mailer trying to write as Jesus, basically copying from the Gospels and reworking them.  It was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7738745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read Mailer before, and I'm not sure if this book is indicative of his style. I really liked it though. It went quickly and I had finished within a day. He wrote it in a way as to infuse the words with a kind of Biblical gravitas, but also very colloquially. I just happened to pick this up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9879865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the premise of this book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mailer uses the first person voice, and writes with a deliberate and simple style. Not sure where it's going. Am reading as an athiest, so I hope he's not going to go all weird and dippy on me. The devil has the best tunes, natch. <br/><br/>In the end, he doesn't go weird. He doesn't really go any...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35037939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[And to think, that if I had never bought this book in a fit of 16 year old pretentious pique, I'd never have found out that Norman Mailer thinks that the devil smells like a butt.  Seriously.  He has Jesus say that.  Is that a spoiler?  Crap.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of your religious friends/relatives will think you a heretic for reading this, but to hell with them.  The story of the old testament told from Jesus's perspective.  Tones down the old testament a lot.  Highly recommended]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few writers are arrogant enough to attempt a book like this.  Even fewer would be skillful enough to pull it off.  Norman Mailer contributes a solid (albeit controversial) retelling of the legend.  And I enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fictional memoir, written from the point of view of the carpenter from Nazareth. I've never read a book that makes Jesus a more sympathetic character, although diehard fundamentalists should probably take a pass.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this crap reads like the fucking bible! i thought i was gonna read some new shit, but...i knew the whole damn story from being forced to sit in a pew in a catholic church for 18 years. no stars!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the first-person, the life of Jesus Christ is expertly squeezed by the literary god into only 242 pages. It beats reading the St. James version and needing Hebrew lessons.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting.  What was it like to be Jesus?  If he was truly a man, then he must have had the same doubts, weaknesses, etc.  That's what it's about.  It strenghtened my faith.]]></body>
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