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"Bob" Dobbs
11-10-2007, 03:19 PM
He was 84.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/11/10/mailer.obit/index.html

Adept Havelock
11-10-2007, 03:44 PM
That's a shame. The Naked and the Dead is a brilliant work, IMO.

RIP, Norman.

HolmeZz
11-10-2007, 03:45 PM
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer. :(

RJ
11-10-2007, 05:48 PM
There aren't many living authors like him.....maybe none. Mailer comes from a time when the novelist could be a person of great notoriety but I don't think that is the case today. Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Capote, James Dickey. All writers who were famous for writing novels and sometimes became larger than life characters on their own. It seems today that novelists only matter if their books become movies. In fact, one reason I read less fiction these days is because the stories often read as though the authors are attempting to create made for film settings and scenarios. As if the words don't matter as much as the images, as if how it reads on paper is less important than how it will look on film.

I hope Hemingway and Twain and Steinbeck all meet him at the gates and they throw down a few shots together. RIP, Norman Mailer.