(np) once you get past Jackie Gleason barfing...

[Bekah]

Yes,  now that I have a Kindle a reread may be in order!   What happened was I saw the book as a new release on an indie shelf back in '98?  I stood in the aisle and read the entire prologue, mesmerized.   Bought the book,  devoured the book.  Read what I could of DeLillo's other books.  

Then some of my book-buds online were intrigued by Underworld and they wanted a group read - okay fine.  I read it again.  This was in about 1999.  In about 2002 another group wanted a group read.  Yikes.  I ended up  re-reading to lead that discussion and finally (!) followed the ball all the way through the owner changes.  Love that book - there's something about the rhythm of the sentences that speaks to me. 

Bekah


On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> On 1/21/2012 10:17 AM, Technopaegnion Tapinosis wrote:
>> 
>> The author was so compared with his slow learning and slow to publish betters before this work. It is the best of his and far better than anything his betters have published thus far. The Street in that first chapter of Underworld is no Pynchonian abstraction, no Cabinets of Caligari's nnightmares twisted on stages for set pieced clever parodies and shaggy pigs, but resounds with the laughter and barking, the lads gamboling, the Upper Town to the Bronx vibrations. 
> 
> It's available on Kindle, which makes a reread tempting.
> 
> The original, sitting approximately two feet from my left hand, is too heavy to any longer lift.
> 
> P