[James Robertson]

I’ve read Underworld, White Noise, and Mao II. White Noise seems to me the strongest of the three. Yet to read Libra, which looks good.




James


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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aside from Great Jones Street, I think Mao II is Delillo's slightest
> pre-Underworld work.
> End Zone is also slight, but it makes up for it by being a hoot.
> My favorite Delillo by far is Ratner's Star. It's his Gravity's Rainbow.
> Post-Underworld, they've all been kind of slight and light-weight (although
> I enjoyed Point Omega quite a bit). I think that's by design, though, so
> whatevs.
> Have yet to finish Underworld, but have read most everything else. Pafko at
> the Wall is, of course, brilliant.
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <
> kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I don't like Moonies, and I didn't care for Mao II. The mass Moonie
>> wedding in the beginning was the high point.
>>
>> LK
>>
>>
>> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't like Moonies.  Should I attempt Mao II?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:42 AM, 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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