DeLillo

[Matthew Ryan]

I pretty much agree with you on White Noise. I'm hoping to get around to
Underworld this summer which seems to be where a lot of the DeLillo "hype"
is coming from.

On 6/2/06, Billy Genocide <billygenocide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can I ask what the fuck is the attraction to DeLillo? Granted, I've only
> read White Noise. But as for that particular novel it had nothing to offer
> in the way of innovative technique or narrative style; the points he makes
> about late 20th century life are trite and obvious; the most interesting
> ideas (such as the Hitler studies) are not fleshed out as well as they could
> be; the story seems to do a great deal of floating around without much
> purpose. Essentially, the whole book came off as rather stale to me. Am I
> seriously missing something? Should I read some of his other work?
>
> --
> The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
> -Chaucer
>
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