DeLillo

[Joe Allonby]

They've lowerd the fare?

On 6/5/06, a l <elviscoturbio at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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