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    <body><![CDATA[My first experience with Don DeLillo was good.  I'm not certain I'd be <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2581.Ready_for_Anything_52_Productivity_Principles_for_Work_and_Life" title="Ready for Anything  52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen">ready for anything</a> else of his for a while-- that's a nice way of saying one of his books might be enough.  But I'm usually very adamant about finishing what I start.  And it was good, just not <em>great</em>.  I'm moving on to short stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5693983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DeLillo's first book. True to its name in countless ways, including 1) the distinctly American description of the main character's office life (David Bell, a TV executive), with many amusing exchanges with the secretaries and his boss, mainly at the first part of the book; and 2)the way David Bell d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11126229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just really unbelievable that he can get away with so blatant and heavy a freudian plot point. Along with the iron-fisted relationships drawn between flashback and present action. All of it. The disastrous last act, the disastrous bookend premise of the narrator's presence. And still, STILL, a book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4388329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago, and quite liked it - though it is not really his best book.  There a wonderful part in it where the writer is making a film and has written the script on the walks of the motel room he is in and gets the actor to read the script as he uses the camera to either film the actor o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2933335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the titles of his books make clear (Americana, Underworld, Cosmopolis) Don Delillo has Great American Novel (GAN) ambitions. Americana, Delillo’s debut, tells the familiar (hackneyed? banal?) story of David Bell, a young, successful, and yet - surprise! - disillusioned television executive in N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44659341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To those in search of origins, their own, or Delillo's, this is undoubtedly an interesting read.  As Delillo's first novel, and most obvious attempt at the great American novel, it falls prey to many &quot;first novel mistakes.&quot;  It is clever, sharp and keenly insightful, but it is disjointed, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/182097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In turns brilliant and disgusting. It really felt like Delillo was stretching his legs to see what he could do. I'd recommend it to people who enjoy his other work, but not as a first read for this author. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i think my big problem with this book is that you can tell it's his first, and if i had read it when i was 19, i probably would've gotten a lot more out of it. creative youths bug me, mostly because i was one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book. I remember when I read DeLillo's book &quot;Libra&quot; that I had been completely enamored with his prose. It was a really good book, and he had a penchant for detail that was completely unmatched. And the prose in Americana is good, but I just didn't like it as m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63174935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If &quot;Mad Men&quot; were to continue on for another five/ten years, or worse, do a spin-off, &quot;Americana&quot; would be its jumping of the shark. I really wanted to like this book. But I just couldn't connect. David wasn't doing it for me. There is a great line though, (thus two stars and not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73206106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don Delillo's first novel is less a novel than snippets of a long conversation. It sort of runs like a videotape that is put on fast forward ten minutes for every five minutes you're allowed to watch. This storytelling approach is appropriate since that is essentialy what the novel is. <br/><br/>D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5540923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most unpleasant books I've read in ages. I read as much as I did because the writing is lovely (it's DeLillo's first novel). But the characters are laughably empty; the plot a series of cliches about cliches. The protag's amoral boredom and Freudian obsessions get in the way of so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53704746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not what I expected from this author. I actually read this book a few tmes because I would start it and then not finish it. Compared to hs other books, I didn't really like ths one. It moved slow once you got passed the first half of the book. The beginning was interesting but then it just dragged o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42099720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I once saw this book referenced (I no longer recall by who) as an example of the First Novels Are Most Quintessential principle. Not necessarily best, but just the most like the body of work they open. The idea has some merit, especially in this case: DeLillo has always grappled with the meaning of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13942544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's another one of the books that I started a couple of months back and never finished (lots of excuses on file, haha).  I actually enjoyed this book although hating the main character the entire time.  But it's too early to judge since there is more than half a book for him to redeem himself!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don DeLillo is without a doubt one of the most brilliant authors I have read. His words in &quot;Americana&quot; ring most true, with paragraphs that make you nod your head in utter agreement, perhaps even evoke fond memories from your own past experiences of the same kind. Yes, Don DeLillo is a bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37400808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this, DeLillo's first book, because my husband said it was good. I'm a fan of Libra and White Noise, and an even bigger fan of Underworld, so I thought, Why not? <br/><br/>I couldn't stand this book. I don't remember much about it except that it reminded me of hanging out with pretentious 1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2850108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was an interesting book rather than an enjoyable one to read. It was all a bit empty (as intended I expect but still depressing). The opening part was proto-American Psycho without the killing - I wonder if BEE read this before he wrote the Psycho book. Underworld is still way my favourite DeLill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42772864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[even though this book is great, i am forced to read it very slowly. this is because i do most of my reading in the bathtub, and i value the old brittle edition that matthew gave me too much to put it in peril. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm thinking of reading one of Dale Peck's novels just to get a sense of what his vision of the antithesis to &quot;the stupid — just plain stupid — tomes of DeLillo&quot; might look like in execution.<br/>Having reread yet again the famous ax-murder (of a book that, to be fair, probably at lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54773833">more...</a>]]></body>
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