9/11 Novels

[alice wellintown]

And all that conspiracy shit...well...give me a break....I'm Horatio, and I
can tell a true tale that will make all those fictions fall into a grave of
infinite jest, fancy, and silence all you conspiracy clowns  brought out
because there aught to be grave diggers and weavers or grand cuckoo net
conspiracies.

On Friday, March 1, 2013, wrote:

> Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is often grouped with the 9/11 novels.  It's
> pretty damn good.
>
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> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> Subject: 9/11 Novels
>
>  following recent thread, I'm not sure there has been a really good
> 9/11-themed novel. of course Delillo wrote 9/11 novels before 9/11 and
> then decided to write a 9/11 novel after and even Falling Man was a
> real bland effort. tackling it head on like that as david morris noted
> is not a good idea. it's still too fresh and too big an event to do
> that.
> I did like Matt Ruff's the Mirage, alternate universe take on 9/11
>
>
> rich
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