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...Exorcist, Blatty...
FICTION 1. QBVII,Uris(21astweek) 2. The Passions of the Mind, Stone (1) 3. The New Centurions, Wambaugh (3) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty 5. The Underground Man, MacDonald (4) 6. The Bell Jar, Plath (5) 7. Tarantula, Dylan 8. The Other, Tryon 9. Summer of '42, Raucher (8) 10. The Throne of Saturn, Drury...
...EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty. 340 pages. Harper...
Among other things, the devil is a sexist pig. Even a cursory look through the literature of demonology discloses that he often negotiates with men but rudely possesses women. The Exorcist is about the possession of a young female, but it has nothing to do with literature. It is a pretentious, tasteless, abominably written, redundant pastiche of superficial theology, comic-book psychology, Grade C movie dialogue and Grade Z scatology. In short, The Exorcist will be a bestseller and almost certainly a drive-in movie...
...Relish. Detailed arguments in the book often reappear contained in conversational sentences. For example, Huxley insists that men searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...