Book: The Executioners Song

The Executioners Song
By Norman Mailer


OK so I have been on This book for a while now and its driving me crazy it doesn't make sense.
I'm 230 pages in and he has only just killed someone.... And it's killing me with boardem. I was so excited about this book I really was but God the details are horrendous they go all the way back to the cousins daughters nephews brother...... I'm going to give it some more time then move on to another one then come back to it, I believe every now and then you need a break from a book that has 1060 pages in.

Have you read it?
What's your thoughts?

Quote


We are not all born at once, but by bits. 
The body first, and the spirit later... 
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; 
we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.