DeLillo

[bekah]

I totally agree.  Underworld was some kind of megafiction and DeLillo 
took it as far as he could.   And then he tried to go the other way 
with his minimalist works,  The Body Artist and Cosmopolis.  The 
themes are still there.  The words aren't.  It's been 4 years now and 
I want another novel from him but he's been doing that film thing.

Bekah

At 10:32 AM +0200 6/3/06, rich wrote:
>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, <mailto:MalignD at aol.com>MalignD at aol.com 
><<mailto: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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