underworld too long?

[Richard Romeo]

peter (from nz--damn i'm envious) wrote:

halfway through i was thinking that the book was
>amazing, but by the end i felt it had outstayed its welcome. reading 
>GR,>MD, JR and the Tunnel, i felt sad each time i was nearing the end, as i 
> >didn't want them to finish. underworld, i thopught would have been 
>stronger >if it had been 200 pages shorter. did anyone else feel this?
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not really--delillo, for moi, is a writer I go to again and again simply for 
the language--always wanted him to write a long one and he did--parts of the 
middle section sag, for sure, but the beginning and the end are quite 
remarkable.

One could say the same of Gass's Tunnel--one could be just as entranced by 
Gass' use of language in an even more plot-less book--but The Tunnel doesn't 
resonate w/ me--feel Gass is too academic, but that's only a personal 
prejudice.

Rich

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