Delillo

[Richard Romeo]

I always felt White Noise to be overrated--The Names,
I think, is his most relevant novel today--never
believed the bullshit of terrorists taking the place
of the novelist in Mao 2 (the madness of the rocket or
bomb or gun is now external, out of the bag, outside
the small yet large confines of the individual
writer/reader; if the future belongs to crowds, I'd
rather be a lone reader with the future past instead
the daily newspaper and environs) 

pafko at the wall section of Underworld is his best
piece of writing IMHO (seems to be downhill from there
in subsequent attempts at readings of body artist,
cosmopolis, and some of the short pieces)

rich


--- bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> At 9:34 PM -0500 1/31/04, Toby G Levy wrote:
> >
> >
> >And I also think that White Noise is outstanding,
> in my opinion far and
> >away the best of all Delillo's novels.
> >
> >Toby
> 
> 
> And I liked it least, fwiw. Underworld was far and
> away the best, 
> imo, with Mao II a distant second. The Names was
> also way up there 
> for me. The Names really established paranoia as a
> DeLillo theme. But 
> Underworld was a whole 'nother ball game.
> 
> bekah


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