Title: What a Waste
Product review: Norman Mailer has a reputation as an excellent author, so I decided to pick this up and give it a go. The first 100 pages hooked me, with the expectation the plot would develop, the characters would fill out, and there would be resolution to the initial conflict presented in the prologue.What a disappointment. The initial hook of the prologue is never linked to the main thesis, and the end leaves one hanging with more questions than answers. It's as if Mailer decided he wanted to end the novel, so he stopped typing. After ~1300 pages, of which ~700-800 should be eliminated, I was hoping for better.
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