[James Robertson]

Although, when I think about it, Underworld does have some great set pieces, like the nuclear test and the Lenny Bruce stuff. I wonder if Jonathan Franzen was consciously trying to emulate these in the Corrections?




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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:39 PM, James Robertson
<james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:

> 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.
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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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>>> >>
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