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...reminds us?in a third of the time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family." BOOKS . . . THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON: You needn?t be a Christian to find Norman Mailer's new novel (Random House; 242 pages; $22) purporting to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus a dubious and ultimately failed enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what tons of historical research and theological studies have failed to accomplish: present a convincing account of what it may have felt like to be the man Jesus, human like...
KARENNA GORE is sick of being the Secret Service's Smurfette. The eldest daughter of Al and Tipper reveals her code name (and the fact that Chuck Berry stepped on her toes four years ago) in the first-person Inaugural Insider column she composed for the online magazine Slate, on which she's an editorial assistant. Her duties usually run to fact checking and headline writing, but given the vantage point she had for the festivities, it's not surprising that boss Michael Kinsley gave her a few screen inches. Gore, 23. seems to enjoy being a Second Daughter...
...first-person account of taking Redux, Jeffrey Ressner admitted he was not an ideal candidate for the drug but talked his doctor into prescribing it, did not complete the course of treatment before offering his conclusions and failed to note the obvious cause of at least part of his weight loss: his consumption of chopped salads and grilled vegetables instead of French fries and pasta. If Ressner was going to be a guinea pig, why not go whole hog? Give us a week-by-week report on his progress on Redux, including the inevitable weight-loss slowdown and frustration. Then...
Those who slog through the entire novel will find it difficult to tell whether Yglesias wants to portray his Dr. Neruda as hero, fool or, when he investigates the circumstances leading to Gene's fiasco, charlatan. With first-person narration, it is left to the reader to make that judgment. But what to make of a man who tells his lover, "Diane, if you review what you just said carefully, I really believe you'll see a contradiction." This is a man to track down evil...
...filled with incomprehensible English accents; both are about psychopaths who are caught and sent to institutions; both protagonists are selected for an new treatment that will make them change their ways; and both criminals soon revert to their old ways after being released. The movies even have similar first-person narration styles and musical scores...