Did Don get hit by a cheese truck? What a disappointment! This novel is impressively bad. UNDERWORLD and LIBRA are two of my all-time favorite books, but I barely made it through FALLING MAN. In fact, with ten pages left, I considered putting it down. DeLillo offers little new insight into an already exhausted topic. The characters are flaccid; there's little to no plot; DeLillo neglects his usual ingenious details and fills the novel instead with vague suggestions at what his generally listless and disaffected characters could be. It felt like he had drawn details from a hat--alzheimers, briefcase, gambling--and plugged them into a dramatic mad-lib-cum-novel about 9/11. Logistically the novel needs some work--I'm a good reader, but with little but ambiguous pronouns to go on and unmarked jumps in time, this book could have used a strong editorial hand. I felt like I was reading a late Philip Roth novel, and I don't mean that as a compliment.