tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post3409758833836395695..comments2024-03-15T03:12:42.395-04:00Comments on G D C S + S W D P: The Executioner's SongBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-71847768872334210882007-11-15T15:13:00.000-05:002007-11-15T15:13:00.000-05:00crying of lot 49=goodsleeping for 14 hours and for...crying of lot 49=good<BR/>sleeping for 14 hours and forgetting where you are when you wake up=goodsam pinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802130245839962069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-92132664468771954102007-11-15T14:26:00.000-05:002007-11-15T14:26:00.000-05:00The library here at U of I doesn't have access to ...The library here at U of I doesn't have access to the full-text archives of the NYRB. If yours does, looky here:<BR/><BR/>June 22, 1995: The Loser's Loser by Robert Stone (Rev. of Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer)<BR/><BR/>I borrowed the Executioner's Tale from the American Library in Budapest in about 1996, shortly before it closed, and realized that I would never need or want to read another Mailer novel. It's simply amazing, and still not fully appreciated. (I also had that library's copy, a hd 1st ed., of The Crying of Lot 49 checked out when it got shut down. I still have it.)Andrew Ervinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200850063193548908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-30232452911372465882007-11-15T14:05:00.000-05:002007-11-15T14:05:00.000-05:00andrewandrew< i'd like to read itBLAKE BUTLERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-22556255972636928632007-11-15T14:02:00.000-05:002007-11-15T14:02:00.000-05:00Did you ever read the essay Robert Stone wrote abo...Did you ever read the essay Robert Stone wrote about Mailer for the NY Review of Books? Might have been around the time of Mailer's book on Oswald. If I can dig up a copy, I'll pass it along. What an amazing essay, as you'd expect from Stone.Andrew Ervinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200850063193548908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-61371940084692545232007-11-13T18:10:00.000-05:002007-11-13T18:10:00.000-05:00blakei grinned when i read about your scotumdoes t...blake<BR/><BR/>i grinned when i read about your scotum<BR/><BR/>does that change thingsbrandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14089195037888975037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-24800072339978452402007-11-13T16:07:00.000-05:002007-11-13T16:07:00.000-05:00i will romanticize your nostrils only.cafuffle mad...i will romanticize your nostrils only.<BR/><BR/>cafuffle made me scrotum tense and ripple. in a good way.BLAKE BUTLERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-33030012000357904952007-11-13T16:06:00.000-05:002007-11-13T16:06:00.000-05:00blake, i am going to become a dead icon while i'm ...blake, i am going to become a dead icon while i'm alive. please romanticize me (but don't touch me that makes me feel weird and mad). the person above me said 'cafuffle'. when i read that word i felt good.sam pinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802130245839962069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-63389211754980651722007-11-13T16:05:00.000-05:002007-11-13T16:05:00.000-05:00thanks josh.i agree jereme.lyndall: i'm really gla...thanks josh.<BR/>i agree jereme.<BR/><BR/>lyndall: i'm really glad to hear you liked it. i like the term 'godless bible'. quite appropo. if you're hungry for more mccarthy after that (i know i was, i think i read all of his books in 2 weeks), you should try SUTTREE. that's my favorite of his by far. completely immersive and unlike anything else ever written. one of those you want to stay in forever and hate when the last page is passed.BLAKE BUTLERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-60578909005139497962007-11-13T12:12:00.000-05:002007-11-13T12:12:00.000-05:00I recall quite a cafuffle around Thompson's death....I recall quite a cafuffle around Thompson's death. His ashes were shot out of a canon at a funeral paid for by johnny depp and well attended by a bunch of useless a-listers, like josh hartnett. It's hard to miss that kind of news surely? <BR/><BR/>Blake - I've almost finished blood meridian! Thanks for unwittingly putting me onto it, it's a brilliant book, probably the most morally corruptive book I've ever read...it's epic in its amorality, like a godless bible. It makes me want to visit that part of the world to understand it better. I feel like I may be missing a lot because I'm geographically ignorant, the characters seem so much a part of the landscape.<BR/><BR/>so yeah -thanks.Lyndall-Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693443056558582701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-80260053387179756592007-11-13T03:51:00.000-05:002007-11-13T03:51:00.000-05:00It is a sign of the times. I remember not much be...It is a sign of the times. I remember not much being said when Thompson died.<BR/><BR/>We will never hear the end of it if Spears or Lohan overdose and die.<BR/><BR/>We are all doomed.jeremehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536779108190430035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-45864103224381125742007-11-12T23:07:00.000-05:002007-11-12T23:07:00.000-05:00You've been right on with the books you've recomme...You've been right on with the books you've recommended, so I'm going to give 'er a shot. I've never read anything by Mailer, but I keep seeing around that people like The Executioner's Song. Since you say it's good, I'll read it. I trust you that way.<BR/><BR/>Hope yer doin well.Josh Madayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12406452048123895315noreply@blogger.com