Ruzz’s Reviews > The Executioner's Song > Status Update

dave eggers said in the intro i'd feel compelled to caring for gilmore before the murders happened. i didn't, and i don't. i find him a good symbol of the arrogance of the individual and little more so far. however, nicole, his life love, is very interesting. whore, mother, in love with a murderer, she's the thing that keeps the book going.

what a monster of a book. this is my first of mailer and the writing is so heavily "of the time" it was written it's slow going. the vernacular is painful and i get he wanted it written in the "voice" of the people who lived it but it lacks any elegance and feels a bit like reading a white trash biography so far.