Falling Man

[bekah]

I agree about post-Underworld DeLillo and his minimalization  but I 
wasn't as disappointed with Falling Man as I was in Cosmopolis.  That 
seemed to me a real nadir.  The Body Artist was somewhat better than 
C.   But with Falling Man he seems on the way up again,  it was more 
in line with his earlier works which I really did like a whole lot 
better -  The Names being my favorite but Mao II and Libra placing 
high.

The question is,  where do you go after everything you were paranoid 
about has come to pass?  What do you do with your mind?

Falling Man has to be read kind of carefully.   Underworld was so 
in-your-face with the language and the themes and the little teeny 
plot about the ball.   I loved that one more than all his others put 
together.   Ah well.

Bekah



At 2:26 PM -0400 7/27/07, rich wrote:
>Hi Matt--
>
>I think the post-Underworld DeLillo isn't as interesting--he is 
>working on a micro-level, alot more focus on his characters (never 
>has been his strong point). the stories themselves, at least 
>Cosmopolis and Falling Man, seem dated and tired--Players and The 
>Names covered the same ground much better in more oblique and 
>satisfying ways.  he wasn't so blunt about capitalism or terrorism; 
>he was alot more poetic in his musings.
>
>Falling Man, e.g., would be like if Pynchon decided to write another 
>book about the V-2 rocket but a much more humdrum work like the Guns 
>of Navarone type fair. (or so I believe)
>
>Rich
>
>
>On 7/27/07, Matt Rhodes 
><<mailto:hillcity1970 at gmail.com>hillcity1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Rich:
>
>I've got this in my to-read stack (already signed, no less, so I've 
>already made that investment, and I'm curious about one thing:  is 
>it pedestrian, etc. as a stand-alone, or do feel it's that way in 
>relation to previous DeLillo you may have read?
>
>Best,
>Matt Rhodes
>
>
>On 7/27/07, rich 
><<mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com>richard.romeo at gmail.com > wrote:
>
>hi all
>
>got around to reading DeLillo's new one--I have to say--god, that 
>was boring, the characters were annoying, the terrorists bland
>
>it was so...pedestrian, unoriginal, and leaden
>
>p.s. has anyone sat thru Syberberg's 7 hour- Hitler: A Film from Germany?
>
>rich
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