New DeLillo--June 2007

[bekah]

Underworld hands down - no question.   I've read it 3 or 4 times and 
I know that's not nearly as many as some fans.  Underworld spoke to 
me the first time I caught sight of the cover art standing out so 
smartly on the new release shelf at the local indie bookstore.  That 
was back in '97 / '98?    Stepping back to a little "used" section I 
read right through the Prologue.  Paid full price ($28?),  and took 
it home to finish it off but it took me a couple weeks because I was 
reading very intently.   And it took a couple more readings,  over 
the course of  7 or 8 years,  to really track the path of the ball.

I'd never heard of DeLillo before that but I went on to read his 
priors back to Players and kept up with the later works.   My 
rankings:

1.   Underworld
2.  The Names
3.  Mao II
4.  Libra
5.  Running Dog
6.  White Noise
7.  The Body Artist
8.  Cosmopolis

Bekah


At 7:29 PM -0500 11/14/06, bob mccart wrote:
>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 
><<mailto:bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>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 
><http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=2&pid=353286>Don 
>DeLillo
>
>This Edition: Hardcover
>Publication Date: 06/2007
>Our Price: $26.00
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