Delillo

[Richard Romeo]

> 
> People have such varived responses to Delillo.  I
> found The Names kind of a slog.
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it is but I just love Axton asking "are they killing
americans"
> 
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> 
> I like the surface of his books, the rhythms of his
> prose.  Beneath, I think there's often less than one
> might anticipate.  If you compare him to Gaddis,
> which
> is, I think, a more apt comparison than to Pynchon,
> his work seems suddenly and immediately sligtht. 
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I guess that's what gets me--he was my hero (or one of
em for a time) and I just lost the passion for his
writing. it's all nostalgia now for so many.

i'm beginning Redburn and the other earlier Melville.
on my way to Ireland next week--any Pynchon fans in
Dublin, Belfast?

rich
  


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