Couldn't get past the 1st chapter. Too full of self pity and brooding introspection.
Classic mystery...Good as ever.
After reading this, I see how he got a good reputation; he can pull you into a story pretty quick, and he kind of catches the poor-slob macho view of life.
Raw Norman Mailer mystery.
I thought it was time I read something by Norman Mailer. I picked this book. 1st mistake. I really tried to like it, got to page 33, quit. Picked it up again. 2nd mistake, got to page 66. Finally did something right and gave it up. Luckily it is a library book, so nothing lost. Maybe I'll try another one by him, but I just don't get it. Don't recommend it.
On the twenty forth day of his wife's decampment, Tim Maddes awakens with a gruesome hangover, a brand new tattoo on his upper arm, blook all over the passenger seat of his Porsche, a severed female head in his marijuana stash, and almost no memory of his actions on the preceding evening. Is he a killer? That's what he must set out to discover.
