New DeLillo--June 2007

[bob mccart]

Sorry to task the ever-repeated question, but what do you guys think is the
best DeLillo? I started reading Libra after a very profound recomendation,
but the book didn't live up to anything. Sentences were all choppy, ugly: I
probably didn't give it enough time or had just read a book of drastically
different style that necessitated a different sort of reading.

On 11/14/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>  Well,  now I'm all happy - this is going to be a very good year.
>
> I know that Cosmopolis was not terribly well-received,  it wasn't very
> good,  (The Body Artist wasn't too bad) but hope springs eternal that the
> creator of Underworld and Mao II and The Names and White Noise and so on
> will do it again.
>
> The name makes me think of 9/11.    Sad to say  at 288 pages,  it sounds
> "minimalist" again and DeLillo, the word-smithand sentence builder
> extra-ordinaire,  is not his best when he's skipping words.
>
> Bekah
>
> At 3:54 PM -0500 11/13/06, rich wrote:
>
> hey all--
>
> from simon and schuster site, 288 pgs
>
> *Falling Man*
> **
>
> *A Novel*
> **
>
> By Don DeLillo<http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=2&pid=353286>
>
> *This Edition:* Hardcover
> *Publication Date:* 06/2007
> *Our Price:* $26.00
>
>
>
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