Catching up...

[jd]

I'll need to pick up Libra again eventually... I read and enjoyed
White Noise and Mao II just fine but I definitely don't think he has
the heft to be in any "top four" list.  Underworld however just bored
me.

On 8/24/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Generally, that's true in DeLillo's books but Libra is the least "affected"
> in that sense. Oswald's depiction is quite human--he's creepy, but I believe
> DeLillo is able to take a nobody, a cypher, and project him onto the average
> American psyche, feelings of inadequacy, persecution, rage, naivete, etc.
>
> p.s. Libra also includes a truer portrait of Oswald's mother--a very damaged
> soul but hard not to sympathize
>
> Rich
>
>
> On 8/24/06, April Phillips <apes1 at cox.net> wrote:
> > I'm so glad to hear you say that about DeLillo's characters.  "Affected"
> is
> > the best description I can think of.  I agree that he is a master at the
> > craft of prose, but craft alone can only go so far.  Readers must be able
> to
> > care about, and believe in, the characters.  I think his books belong in
> the
> > category of "literature you have to pretend to enjoy to keep your
> membership
> > in the Dateless Intellectuals club."
> >
> > I used to think Ulysses fit into that category as well, but as of recent
> > discourse, I've learned that I need merely spend more time in Dublin pubs
> to
> > understand the characters behind the masterful prose.  Actually, I always
> > suspected that was the case.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "The Great Quail" <quail at libyrinth.com>
> > To: "The Whole Sick Crew" < pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:02 PM
> > Subject: Catching up...
> >
> >
> > > Sex, drugs and rock and roll... Isn't that just an update on "Wine,
> women,
> > > and song?"
> > >
> > > The guys who made the "Journey into the mind of p." film were Germans of
> > > Italian descent.
> > >
> > > Not that I would argue with Bloom's quartet, but I cannot stand DeLillo.
> I
> > > think his sentences are wonderfully constructed and such, but I hate
> every
> > > one of his characters. I have tried and tried to read his books, but I
> > > always get so frustrated at the way his characters speak, it's just so
> > > affected and annoying....
> > >
> > > --Quail
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