[Keith Davis]

White Noise is my favorite, though The Names was good. Underworld, ok. Haven't read Mao...Libra also very good.


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> On Aug 27, 2015, at 9:45 PM, James Robertson <james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
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> 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. 
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>>> End Zone is also slight, but it makes up for it by being a hoot.
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>>> My favorite Delillo by far is Ratner's Star. It's his Gravity's Rainbow.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Have yet to finish Underworld, but have read most everything else. Pafko at the Wall is, of course, brilliant.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> LK
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>>>> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I don't like Moonies.  Should I attempt Mao II?
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>>>> 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
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>>>> > Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> > I do not seem to see as much attention to it as a Great book compared
>>>> > to many others, even Delillo's others.
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>>>> > 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.
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>>>> >> Now that I think about it, it is one of the few books that I have
>>>> >> initially
>>>> >> thought great that I have never reread.
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>>>> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> >>> Melissa Harrison ‏@M_Z_Harrison  12m12 minutes ago
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>>>> >>> 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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