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A review by kasualobserver
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
5.0
An extraordinary novel, whose incredible power is hard to describe or explain. Like a impressionist painting - but a thousand times more violently - it directly addresses your emotions and bypasses your intellectual understanding of the text. It is a literary version of a good Tarantino movie, 40 years early. The violence and the sex are not pointless, they are geared to punching you in the stomach and making you react to the style of the book as strongly as the author wrote it.
Much of the story is purposefully unrealistic, incredible, over the top - clearly just a tool in the hand of the writer to make the book a weapon that he can strike you with - a way to imprint you, the reader, with raw emotions which no other book I have read was able to express with the same power.
Not a book that should be read by anyone younger than a mature teenager:-)
Much of the story is purposefully unrealistic, incredible, over the top - clearly just a tool in the hand of the writer to make the book a weapon that he can strike you with - a way to imprint you, the reader, with raw emotions which no other book I have read was able to express with the same power.
Not a book that should be read by anyone younger than a mature teenager:-)