NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT OMEGA

[Bekah]

Oh I am so green that you get to see and hear DeLillo.    Yes,  I  
finished Point Omega and enjoyed it more than Cosmopolis,  less than  
Underworld. (heh) - Kind of like Falling Man but maybe a tad better -  
hard telling - an interesting addition to his oeuvre though.    I  
think I enjoyed it more than you appear to.  I was kind of involved in  
the ideas of anonymity and intimacy as expressed in the settings.    
While in NY the characters were very self-involved,  in the desert the  
film-maker and his subject became close as people.   And there was a  
kind of suspense which ticked through the whole  book - never really  
heavy-duty but always there,  ominous.

Bekah


On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:42 AM, rich wrote:

> finished Point Omega y'day--I wish he wrote about the rumsfeld-like  
> character more--the side story w/ his daughter/filmmaker to me felt  
> pointless, and the whole 24-hour Psycho movie in slo-mo was just  
> laborious. like trying to swallow molasses. nothing to really hold u  
> rapt, its all mind, like having dinner with a drunken and grumpy  
> philosopher of some sort
>
> he writes some fine sentences but all that stripped down musings on  
> film, art, and space/time just too thin to hang all that heavy shit on
>
> so, back to gitta sereny's great book on albert speer
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> BookCourt    don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT  
> OMEGA
>
>
>
>

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