{"id":192,"date":"2006-09-20T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=192"},"modified":"2006-09-20T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:52:00","slug":"naked-and-dead-by-norman-mailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/09\/naked-and-dead-by-norman-mailer.html","title":{"rendered":"The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ended up reading two books on the 100 Best list about the first World War at the same time. It wasn’t intentional. I didn’t know The Naked and the Dead<\/a> was even on the list. I’d just run across a copy of it at a used book store and recognized the name. And the other book, USA (reviewed separately) is only sometimes about the war. It just so happened I was at the spot where the war was going on at the same time I was reading this book.<\/p>\n

I liked this one better. It had too many character so I never did completely figure out whose backstory belonged to whose current drama, but it was engaging from moment to moment and a sort of story arc began to prevail. It starts a little disjointed – so many people and no apparent plot – but the plot eventually shows itself. The characters go on a mission from which several will not return. It gets your attention. <\/p>\n

As with many on the 100 Best list, it doesn’t seem head and shoulders above the rest to me but I found myself wrapped up in the characters and the story as it went on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ended up reading two books on the 100 Best list about the first World War at the same time. It wasn’t intentional. I didn’t know The Naked and the Dead was even on the list. I’d just run across a copy of it at a used book store and recognized the name. And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-best","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}