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High school me would have loved this book. Present-day me...not so much.
DeLillo can certainly write, but nothing happens. Even when things DO happen, it seems like nothing is happening. Everything is just so absurd and over-the-top, I found myself constantly wanting to roll my eyes. I know that the absurdity is what DeLillo was going for, but I didn't like it. The dialogue and interactions between the characters is just plain bad. They all talk the same, from the 51 year old professor of Hitler ...more
DeLillo can certainly write, but nothing happens. Even when things DO happen, it seems like nothing is happening. Everything is just so absurd and over-the-top, I found myself constantly wanting to roll my eyes. I know that the absurdity is what DeLillo was going for, but I didn't like it. The dialogue and interactions between the characters is just plain bad. They all talk the same, from the 51 year old professor of Hitler ...more
The first third of this book I really, really liked. It felt like it had just the slightest touch of an alternative history or speculative fiction novel. The Hitler studies, calling the New York professors emigrés, just that slight sense that things were not quite realistic.
And I loved the airborne toxic event. Combined with the drugs and memory loss of the mom, it seemed like it was shaping up to be really fascinating. And it was really funny in parts and really very insightful.
But then it we ...more
And I loved the airborne toxic event. Combined with the drugs and memory loss of the mom, it seemed like it was shaping up to be really fascinating. And it was really funny in parts and really very insightful.
But then it we ...more
That was... interesting... I guess...
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Hmm...I am giving this a very ambivalent 3. Not a "neutral" 3, an "I really liked parts and really disliked parts" 3. I liked some of the messages underlying it, especially since I like satires...and I particularly liked the theme about how people can be terrified of death, but not actually do anything to prevent/prepare for it. But I'm just soooo not into the whole "terror management theory"/existential angst thing, and it was soooooo pretentiously written. So...3.
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Jun 06, 2009
Ines
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