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Title: Disappointment. Not worth reading.
Review: Only through a newspaper interview with Norman Mailer, could I understand the purpose of the book and appreciate the research and work that went into it. The book itself is less than enlightening, and less than literature. I had the feeling that Mailer, during these Christian times, had either to avoid saying anything controversial, interesting or challenging - or he had overestimated the value of the intellectual and spiritual ideas which he had hoped to share with his readers. The only interesting element in the work is that he used the first person voice to represent the largest of all historic figures. The Christ as portrayed by Mailer could never have gotten out of his own times. Mailer would do well to stick to the world he knows which certainly offers him enough ideas for his writing talents. Frankly, this book is not worth reading - even taken as a small entertainment, the reader will feel he could have spent his time better elsewhere.
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