false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167955055m/28703.jpg 28703 28 <P> It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. <P> Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age 28, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. <P> His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors -- his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to. <P> <I>Cosmopolis,</I> Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of a spectacular downfall. 3019373 2002 Cosmopolis total:1274|5:88|4:292|3:470|2:304|1:120| 1274 3746 1672 127 5 2 false false Mon May 11 16:45:20 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 11:57:33 -0700 2009 Cosmopolis (cosmic...city: the story has a very spaceship glow to it; the gadgetry the narrator describes in Ellisian detail...the rocketship limo, the android guards with names like...like Torval...the voice-activated weaponry) seems more a prophecy of here...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 10:38:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 10 22:30:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 11:03:48 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 17:36:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 10:07:08 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 10:33:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 20:19:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 18:37:52 -0700 2009
A hyperkinetic novel that reads like something penned by...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri May 22 17:37:49 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 17:41:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 18 09:05:22 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:03:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 23 16:07:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 16:15:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:46:03 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:54:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 10:26:58 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 10:31:34 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:06:52 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 06:33:24 -0700 2009 here and here). And his ineffable New Yorkness, and the fact that he went to undergrad the same place I got my law degree (that's as much sch...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 16:12:09 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 13:32:55 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Feb 22 10:47:20 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 11:19:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 02 05:59:33 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 06:01:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Apr 26 13:20:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 11:18:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 10 10:36:49 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 08 04:00:04 -0700 2009 What does anyone imagine? A hundred things a minute. Whether I imagine a thing or not, it's real to me. I have syndromes where they're real, from Malaysia for example...

I liked this book. It took place in one day. A 'Master of the Universe' kind of guy, Eric, just goes bonkers. I like re...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 04:23:38 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 16:37:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 07:20:29 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 19:07:19 -0700 2008
DeLillo is not known for intricate plots. His books are about ideas. This is where he thrives. This is the compensation for an apparent lack of trajectory, or at least a tight;y-paced plot, mostly. But when he abandons all plot and instead engages the character in a s...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Aug 19 21:55:51 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 21:56:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 11:40:59 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 10:34:53 -0700 2008
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