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

[rich]

never saw DeLillo speak but had something happen that was even better--he
sat a few rows away from me at BAM to watch the 7 hour movie Satantango a
few yrs back

I will argue with any that the prologue, Pafko at the Wall, from Underworld,
ranks among the best writing of the last 25 yrs, in this country

rich

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Bekah
> http://tinyurl.com/my-bloggish-thing
>
>
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