Not P: The Couselor

[rich]

i've been going back to re-read DeLillo. I liked Point Omega this time
around but couldnt finish Underworld, a novel I thought the shit for a long
time. in somr weird way, when I read DD as a young man, he was showing me
who I was, but now that I sorta know who I am, it seems besides the point
to get all giddy about him again (how could it?).
I guess I liked Cormac when he popped out real novels, not these
experiments. anyway, now I'm onto Ross Macdonald, a man who proves you can
really be profound without being profound if you know what I mean
("Hollywood started as a meaningless dream, invented for money.But its
colors ran, out through the holes in people's heads, spread across the
landscape and solidified. north and south along, the coast, east across the
desert, across the continent. now we're stuck with the dream without a
meaning, it had become a nightmare we lived in." i fear Cormac or even DD
couldnt help add alot of christmas tinsel to the same idea and not add much
to the sentiment.
Oh, The Road--like Mr. Malick, dont get me started. movies you want to root
for a devil to show up somewheres and start throwing shit ;)
p.s. the only guy from the old guard who hasn't disappointed me is robert
coover. the excerpts i've read from the brunist day of wrath leaves me
pissed that I have to wait till March to read the damn thing.
rich


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think The Road is a lot better than you suggest, although it is
> somewhat light on a pure wordsmithery level. On the other hand,
> haven't we all been a little let down by Don Delillo's late-era work
> for somewhat similar reasons? My favorite is Ratner's Star, but I
> thought Point Omega his best since Underworld. Maybe Cormac and
> Delillo are experimenting with minimalism? And we're just not digging
> it?
>
> Mark T.
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > whatever did cormac go? a couple of weak screenplays, one disguised as a
> > novel, which to be honest, was way too heavy on the ponderous flood of my
> > son is the messiah, again and again. at least the cannibals were
> > interesting. imagine being a member of that group? dare I hope for
> another
> > Suttree. thats the only reason Im sticking around. One's hopes he's not
> > leaving all those ideas in the canteen mess in Santa Fe with all those
> > scientists. I imagine those are interesting discussions. but could I
> > understand any of it? Suttree had that mad women and Knoxville's best
> bums
> > and drunks (are there any better descriptions of alcoholics living in
> cars
> > and freezing to death?). Some bits in there match anything in Absalom
> > Absalom. wherever did Cormac go? has he too lost something since
> mellowing
> > out with a family? who knows
> >
> > rich
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Allan Balliett <
> allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Saw this last night.
> >>
> >> Thought it sucked badly, mostly through the pseudo profound dialogue but
> >> also poor dramatic structure
> >>
> >> But maybe I just resent there was no POV for the algae eater (catfish)
> >> scene
> >>
> >> Allan in WV
> >> from the farm
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone-
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
> >
> >
>
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