Falling Man

[rich]

I don't disparage DeLillo's attempts for a new direction. but those
conversations about abstract art, poker, a rather dull and blunt falling man
performance artist, even the 9/11 attack descriptions seemed labored.

that may be the fate of the see'er--what use are they after they were proven
right? and what does that say when there's no mystery left to what they're
saying? he might as well be franzen or eugenides or that crop of nibblers

rich


On 7/29/07, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>  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.
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> The question is,  where do you go after everything you were paranoid about
> has come to pass?  What do you do with your mind?
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> 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.
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> Bekah
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> At 2:26 PM -0400 7/27/07, rich wrote:
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> Hi Matt--
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> Rich
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> On 7/27/07,* Matt Rhodes* <hillcity1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rich:
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> 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?
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> Best,
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> Matt Rhodes
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> On 7/27/07,* rich* <richard.romeo at gmail.com > wrote:
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> hi all
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> got around to reading DeLillo's new one--I have to say--god, that was
> boring, the characters were annoying, the terrorists bland
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> it was so...pedestrian, unoriginal, and leaden
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> p.s. has anyone sat thru Syberberg's 7 hour- Hitler: A Film from Germany?
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> rich
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