[Erik Burns]

It's about baseball, but it's really about so much more than that. DeLillo knows how to squeeze sports for full value (see also End Zone and Amazons, not to mention the stadium wedding scene in Mao II)

Now I want to read Underworld again!



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Based on everyone's feedback, I'm ready to give it a try. Didn't know about the prologue vs body of book. Thanks, all.

Laura
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That pretty much sums up my reaction to sports of all kinds, yet I enjoyed Underworld (on the second attempt) so you never know...
On 27 Aug 2015 17:43, "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
I don't like baseball. Pretty much any sport bores the shit out of me. Should I attempt Underworld?
Laura

Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

I do not seem to see as much attention to it as a Great book compared
to many others, even Delillo's others.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read it when it was first published. I enjoyed it, but then again I like
> baseball.
>
> Now that I think about it, it is one of the few books that I have initially
> thought great that I have never reread.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Melissa Harrison ‏@M_Z_Harrison  12m12 minutes ago
>>
>> Rachel Kushner’s Guardian piece on DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD makes me
>> wonder if I should have another (third) go at reading the bastard.
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