DeLillo

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Can I ask what the fuck is the attraction to DeLillo? Granted, I've only
 read White Noise. >>

I like DeLillo and I think he grows on you if you read more than just one 
book.  I think any one can be dismissed as not great, except, perhaps, 
Underworld, which was his not-bad attempt to pound out a big one.  But he has a style -- 
cool, distancing, analytical -- that's compelling, and each of his books 
deals with a particular topic --football, Wall Street, terrorism, cults, Oswald -- 
that, taken together, gives his work a depth not available in any single book.

My personal Favorite is Great Jones Street, a preference shared by, to my 
knowledge, no one.