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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:02 AM Original message |
Writer Norman Mailer dead at 84 |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. "The Executioner's Song" was my first Mailer read. Mr. Mailer had such |
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soupkitchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. prosaic, not |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 09:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Wrong usage, thanks for that. Pragmatic prose was where I was headed, |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Another activist voice lost. |
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wellst0nev0ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. Christ, Another One |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. One of the greatest of the greats |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
6. I salute you and your writing with many kudos Mr. Mailer |
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MuseRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. Ah nooooo. |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. Seems to be a popular disease for elderly writers to die of |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. Nooooo! |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
11. R.I.P. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
12. The Faux news bunny kept saying "EXecutor" instead of "exEcutor" |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 12:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Like their audience would know the difference..... |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Ha! nt |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
13. Oswald's Tale |
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Venus Dog (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
14. This is how I'll always remember him |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. R.I.P. n/t |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. Great bio in that AP article...too bad the writer did not get a by line |
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GOPNotForMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. I didn't even know he was ill! So sad... |
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DeposeTheBoyKing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. What a loss |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. One of my favorites -- damn. nt |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. RIP great one. |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. Mailer was a great man of letters. I wonder what his old nemisis, Vidal, will say. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. The hagiographers seem to have overlooked that he stabbed his wife for kicks while drunk |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Thank God!! I thought I had wandered into FR. |
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stanwyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Thanks, Psephos. |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
24. I remember being amazed by "The Naked and the Dead" |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-10-07 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. RIP Norman |
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mogster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 06:40 AM Response to Original message |
26. RIP, Norman Mailer |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
27. So sorry he's dead, but.... |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. He was no worse than statutory rapist/gun nut Hunter S. Thompson |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:14 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. WTF |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. Holy Crap. And what a writer. RIP. nt |
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jzodda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. RIP |
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