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It's a great read though. Mailer made me love this fictional Marilyn, made me want to watch more of her films - it's been years since I've seen one, and made me want to read a good biography as well. Anyone got any recommendations?

The text is accompanied by photos of Marilyn and other actresses in a kind of random way. Interrupted would be a better description if they weren't such great photos. I mean, they do interrupt the flow of text, but they're welcome interruptions for their beauty.

Flipping through some of the other goodreads reviews here, it seems there was a bit more subtext to the creation of this book than I was aware of, but that's my Hollywood naive coming through. Reading it as a naif, it was a sweet, dark, enjoyable tragedy of a story.]]>