tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358931.post1305351152982391635..comments2023-11-01T03:15:01.333-04:00Comments on Blog-Sothoth: HitchGeoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318168982080987586noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358931.post-17818723930247341412007-11-15T19:44:00.000-05:002007-11-15T19:44:00.000-05:00Ha!PS: Your comments about HG were the same ones I...Ha!<BR/><BR/><BR/>PS: Your comments about HG were the same ones I made to my wife immediately after leaving my first comment. Haven't read it since '92 or '93, and am likewise unable to judge its merits. But have heard it was (Harlot's!) ghost written.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358931.post-51970394199847040712007-11-14T19:51:00.000-05:002007-11-14T19:51:00.000-05:00And as for Hitchens? All of me wishes he'd stuff a...And as for Hitchens? All of me wishes he'd stuff a sock in it. I should have popped him in the jaw years ago when I had the chance. But he was trashing Mother Theresa so eloquently (and drunkenly) that I was practically swooning.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08318168982080987586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358931.post-664736346528169192007-11-14T19:49:00.000-05:002007-11-14T19:49:00.000-05:00I read Harlot's Ghost in '91, and have never re-re...I read <STRONG>Harlot's Ghost</STRONG> in '91, and have never re-read it, but I still remember bits and pieces. I doubt at that at that time I was capable of judging its 'literary' merits. It was certainly the best novel of the CIA/Cold War I'd read, and I haven't read a better since.<BR/><BR/>I found HG much more interesting as a whole than <STRONG>The Naked and the Dead</STRONG>.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08318168982080987586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358931.post-46170393509493567362007-11-14T19:19:00.000-05:002007-11-14T19:19:00.000-05:00I think it's crazy that the Hitchens thinks "Harlo...I think it's crazy that the Hitchens thinks "Harlot's Ghost" is Mailer's best. I mean, I love it, but it isn't so much of a *literary* masterpiece as it is an achievement in research compiled by personal assistants.<BR/><BR/>Ah, Hitchens. Part of me wants him to stuff a sock in it. But he also likes "His Dark Materials," and that's cool by me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com