Friday, September 05, 2003
Well, I finally finished the Executioner's song, all 1050 pages of it. I now feel emotionally drained and completely not up for a day at work. It is like nothing I've ever read: powerful; exhausting; frustrating; moving and quite brilliant. Gary Gilmore as Christ? No, that's absurd. Gilmore as an American Meursault? Yeah, that works. I'd had it on my shelf for two years before getting around to reading it but it was worth the wait. I can't recommend it enough.
Truly extraordinary.
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Truly extraordinary.
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