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Title: Mailer's best book since "The Executioners Song"
Review: While I do not consider myself religious, I have read the New Testament many times (read: childhood education). It may be this familiarity with the Gospels that helped make this book such an entirely enjoyable experience. Mailer's effort here made Jesus Christ seem so human and believable. It made Christ seem very plausible - while at times in the past the whole story has come off a bit impossible. Or if not impossible at least recollections of admirers done 40 years later. I know some may find the whole idea sacreligeous, I instead found it thought-provoking and a real page turner. I can't always say that this topic has that same effect on me.
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