DeLillo

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delillo's seductive to many while one is under the direct influence of a 
read... he's intoxicating.  But the aftertaste is often bitter and 
artificial, like a fake sweetener.

his best books are perhaps AMERICANA and LIBRA.  UNDERWORLD, though 
ambitious and spectral/prismatic, is OVERRATED.

that and 50 cents'll get you on the new york city subway.

elvis co



>From: "Matthew Ryan" <matthew.ryan at gmail.com>
>To: "Billy Genocide" <billygenocide at gmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: DeLillo
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:30:11 -0500
>
>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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