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Original Title:	The Naked and the Dead
ISBN:	0312265050 (ISBN13: 9780312265052)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gallagher, Croft, Hearn, General Cummings
Setting:	South Pacific Anopopei

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Paperback | Pages: 721 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 22595 Users | 790 Reviews

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Title	:	The Naked and the Dead
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	50th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 721 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2000 by Picador (first published 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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Us readers have no homes, like unnoticed birds we perch anywhere, like the most disturbed stalkers we go through anybody’s underwear drawer, like vicious tax-gatherers we audit everyone, the writers especially, their creatures the characters very particularly, and hanging between all three of us, the book. It sits there in its cover. We ticket, we note, we award, with our eyes, brains and stars. We scribble in the margins to the outrage of future readers – well, I do, maybe you do not do that. (I never mind if someone has previously done that.) So I have looked out of Humbert Humbert’s paedophiliac eyes, I overheard the good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ, I declined and fell with Paul Pennyfeather and I closely observed Molly Bloom in her bed for at least three hours, she didn’t notice a thing. It was like I wasn’t there. With Jeanette Winterson I too grew up in a crazy Christian cult, and like others before me I could not stop Merricat Blackwood from her pyromania whatever I did. Well, you could all say similar things. Our acceptance of the thousand varieties of human beingness is almost limitless. We are promiscuity itself. The Naked and the Dead is not really about World War Two, or about war in general, it’s about looking through the eyes of men, a whole bunch of them, sleeping with them, eating with them, drinking, pissing and fighting with them. In this novel, the thing to have is a penis. The testosterone floweth through this novel as doth the Ganges through India. And… I just couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to go through all this painful stuff with a bunch of assorted blokes constantly eating, farting, sleeping, waking, yakking, being blown up or not, writing letters, bragging, playing poker, theorising banally about women and on. And on. Because there are a thousand characters, Mailer provides each with a description round the time they are introduced. Such as: He was a little over medium height, well fleshed, with a rather handsome sun-tanned face and graying hair. His expression when he smiled was very close to the ruddy, complacent and hard appearance of any number of American senators and businessmen, but the tough good-guy aura never quite remained. There was a certain vacancy in his face, like the vacancy of actors who play American congressmen. Well, after several descriptions like this everything blurs together and you realise why Catch-22 works so well because in that war novel everyone is a cartoon, no painful attempt at ultra-realistic detail at all, so Milo Minderbinder, Major Major, Colonel Korn and the rest remain intact in the memory years later. But really, me trying to read N&D was doomed to failure. It could have been a good one, I guess, you never know until you try, heck I’ve liked some funny things in my time. But the signs were not good : 1) I am ferociously biased against novels written by 24 year olds and any novels written by anyone under 30. (Writing novels is like the opposite of pop music). Evelyn Waugh has squeaked by (Decline and Fall) and I guess you have to give Mary Shelley the nod too, then there’s Dickens of course….ok, ok, MOSTLY I don’t think people under 30 can write a good novel. Norman Mailer is no Mary Shelley, and he would have been the first to admit that. 2) I hate war stories – Hamburger Hill, Platoon, From Here to Eternity, I avoid them all. I did watch Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line and like, that’s enough. 3) I thought I should read this because I was reading Norman Mailer’s biography which is VERY ENTERTAINING but I just always wanted to be finding out what happened to NORMAN next not the boys in the jungles of Anopopei. I can tell this is really a heck of an accomplishment, he commands his material fearlessly, ther’s no holding back, he’s a right know-it-all, and somebody needed to do a big honest novel about men in WW2 which could be set beside the big thumpers from WW1 (there won’t be any great novels coming out of WW3). So, for me this was a 2 star experience from a 4 star novel, abandoned a little shamefacedly but with relief.

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Is it Mailer's second hand re-telling of horrors of war makes him give a detachment to his characters? Or is it his own inexperience makes it a better war novel as a whole? Most novels based on war have a tendency to evoke sympathy, glamorize apathy or expect empathy. Normal Mailer's The Naked and the Dead does none of that. Its representation of bunch of people stuck in a war they don't understand, afraid of death hovering in every shadow. The brutal prose Mailer executes removes all possible

Thoughts: gawdawful Story recap: men on boats, men get off boats and one man dies, a few Japanese soldiers are killed, an American soldier dies, a Japanese soldier dies, men carry a wounded man back, soldiers try to climb a mountain.Between all this men talk and FEEL.Better title than Naked and the Dead would beThe Househusbands of the South Pacific.Mailers point is nihilism.Only good thing is that Ive read other Mailer works that were very good. If I had read this first I would NEVER have read

This is the shittiest book I have ever read.H. P. Lovecraft, the horror writer from the earlier decades of the 20th century, wrote very little dialogue in his stories because he was aware that he wrote bad dialogue. Stilted, pedantic garbage. He knew that his forte was the description and action of his stories and so for the most part he stuck to that and wrote some very satisfying creepy stories.By contrast, Norman Mailer wrote a great deal of dialogue in the "Naked and the Dead". He didn't

I had high expectations for this novel. Unfortunately they weren't met. The writing is well done and the story is enjoyable. But the novel is more about the characters with the war in the Pacific as a backdrop. Seriously the underlying story could have been replaced with almost any other war story and the same tale could have been told. So three stars for the character story, but in my opinion this does not match the level of Battle Cry by Leon Uris or Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes where the

The Naked and the Dead, Norman MailerWritten in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.The novel is divided into four parts: Wave, Argil and Mold, Plant and Phantom, and Wake. Within these parts are chorus sections, consisting of play-like dialogue between characters, as

This is one of the great war novels from World War II. Norman Mailer studied aeronautical engineering at Harvard, but he became interested in writing, having his first story published at age 18. He was drafted after he graduated from college in 1943. He served in the Pacific with the United States Army, where he obtained the knowledge and experience to write about soldiers in combat. The Naked and the Dead was published when Mailer was 25. It instantly became a huge success, spending 62 weeks on

I can't recall how many years ago I tried to read this - probably 30 or more. I recall hearing that it was the best story about war ever written so, impressionable as I was at that age, I decided I'd have to read it. My only recollection is that very early on there was a scene of such grim death and destruction that I felt physically sickened. Coward that I was (and probably still am) I gave up the attempt to work my way through this tome immediately. I noticed an excellent review from a GR