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My only experience with a book of this topic. I had to sort my feelings about this one. I loved the writing in places, but felt some of the conversations lost their weight. My personal reaction was that I was ticked off in places when I started to think DeLillo might not have understood that the events of 9/11 were a very broadly felt experience. Then the book would roll back around so that I didn't feel this way in the end.
It is not an overwhelming book, so in that I recommend that it might be ...more
It is not an overwhelming book, so in that I recommend that it might be ...more
My first DeLillo read (recommended by son Alex)--I really enjoyed it overall.
I read this for my book group but do not recommend it for anyone. I couldn't finish the book and only made it halfway through it. The characters all bored me and didn't do anything. Reading the book was like fighting my way through a thick fog trying to figure out what was going on. You would think a book about 9/11 would be suspensful and interesting but those are two things this book is definitely not.
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Returned this to the library unfinished. I don't enjoy Don DeLillo, and I need to stop trying just because he's critically acclaimed. There's books out there I'd enjoy reading, for example.
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