[John Bailey]

White Noise is a great, fun read, maybe because DD is trying to be fun
more than trying to be great. Underworld put my back out (literally)
and didn't earn it. If P's big novels do feel as though they contain
everything of importance in the modern world, Underworld to me felt
like it contained everything of importance to a certain strain of
cultural studies at the time it was written. But that's my back
talking, not my close analysis.

Mao II is an easy read. Short, too. Maybe prescient in some ways but
not a lot of magic to it.

I liked The Body Artist. Cosmopolis too, in some respects, though it's
super slight. Falling Man was dreadful.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> 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?
>
> James
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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.
>>
>> 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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