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Entry: Requiem for a Tough Guy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/requiem_for_a_tough_guy#9175 Post contents: I remember first taking a look at Mailer back in 1991-1992 when my high school sweetheart bought me "Harlot's Ghost" for Christmas. I still wonder how that saga was supposed to end. I have read most of his books since then. The books on Picasso and Marilyn did little for me. I had some problems with "The Gospel According to the Son" but some of it, the tempting in the desert comes to mind, was well done. "Tough Guys" had me in stitches, "Ancient Evenings" had me confused. There was a reference Mailer had made to himself, I think it was in the interview he did with Madonna which was in "Time of Our TIme," when he called himself an Edwardian. I bought the paperback of "The Castle in the Forest" and could not shake that or his "left conservatism." Mailer was a man who believed in Good and Evil as his most recent books clearly revealed. More than a few critics have been baffled over why Mailer included a description of the coronation of Nicholas II being plagued by devils in "The Castle in the Forest." Having seen so much of it, Mailer simply decided the 20th century was not a good one and that mankind has taken big steps back. Norman Mailer, reactionary? Who would have thought it. Peace to his restless spirit. Sent at: 2008 10 15