what should I read?

[Ghetta Life]

I tried reading DeLillo’s  _Americana_, but didn't get far.  The characters 
were all unappealing.  I didn’t like the writing, but I can’t say he’s a bad 
writer.  Just not my taste.  It may just be that the subject matter and 
style alienated ME.  Here’s what Publishers Weekly said (from Amazon site):

<<"In search of his roots, a successful but unhappy TV executive takes off 
for the heartland of America. This first novel is peopled with characters 
alienated not only from one another, but from themselves. It has the smell 
of staleness and despair. It is also, with its deadly accurate observations, 
its veracious dialogue, and its consistency of view, brilliantly written,">>

I finished _Wind Up Bird Chronicles_ and was ambivalent as I finished it.  
The ending was too facile a wrap-up, and many strange metaphysical details 
described in earlier events/encounters are just ignored at the end.  I’m now 
reading his _Kafka at the Shore_, and find it better written, but similar in 
subject/style.  I would call both “Postmodern” because of the high level of 
metaphysical events.  But I wonder whether I’ll be similarly disappointed 
with its ending.  I expect intent in all the metaphysics, mirror-images, 
symbols, etc. – not just passing entertainment.

Ghetta


>From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>
>Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
>
>On 8/5/05, snappydresser <snappydresser at rogers.com> wrote:
> > > Need something to read.  Preferably a novel.  Anyone have any 
>suggestions?  Not into reading any Post-Modernist stuff that comes across 
>as a pale imitation of >TRP.  Never read DeLillo.  Is he worth reading?

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