Posts Tagged ‘the naked and the dead’

Today, the Guardian has reprinted an excerpt from The Naked and the Dead that paints a graphic picture of the realities of jungle warfare:
Hennessey froze his body. If I don’t move, I won’t get dirtier, he thought. He remembered Red and Wilson talking about “keeping a tight asshole”, and now he understood what they meant. He [...]

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 — [...]