Dave Schaafsma’s Reviews > The Executioner's Song > Status Update

More than halfway, finally, as I take my peaceful holiday break to read a true crime book about killer Gary Gilmore, who was infamous in the seventies. Is it any good, you say? Well, Norman Mailer wrote it. With zero commentary, like nothing he ever wrote, in the flattest western working class prose. Feels almost like straight ethnography of the language and culture of that time and place.