DeLillo

[rich]

i agree tho my favorite is The Names
and the beginning of underworld
i respect him alot but feel the culture has caught up with him
underworld seemed a summing up; the works after that attempts at new
directions, at least the body artist was. cosmopolis was a total
mistake--quite forgettable for those who've read all his other stuff.
notice he's also fathered much being written fiction-wise, at least by white
american young writers.
heck, even updike is writing about terrorism. yikes

rich


On 6/3/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
>
> << 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.
>
>
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