75 Books…

by admin on 16. Nov, 2008 in In the Media

From Esquire, via Collected Miscellany, comes “75 Books Every Man Should Read.” It lists Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead as #25 (I might have scored it higher than some of those above it) — in the company of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, DeLillo, Melville, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner, and Roth. This is, indeed, a man’s list — not that women wouldn’t enjoy many of these books — and very American-centric.

Would someone explain the choice of Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up over The Great Gatsby?

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  • John Dalziel
    Esquire seems to be saying the list is random, so I think we shouldn't see The Naked and The Dead as 25th. on the list. By that reading it would come before Moby Dick and we can be certain Norman Mailer would not be happy with that. Perhaps a chronological order would have dispelled any confusion. For my part, I would have Naked somewhere in the top five of those listed, with Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazov out front. Shades of Some Children of The Goddess!
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