Underworld --Buddy Read

[Darren]

this is it people!
August fast approaching...
who's with me? :o)

Don DeLillo's Underworld

[Warner]

I'll be reading it! I honestly can't wait to start. I have several books on my shelf that have been calling my name for a while and this is one of them.

[Jon]

I'm in. I went to see a talk by DeLillo a month or two ago and he said that this was the only book he misjudged the length of before writing it. It was meant to be a three or four page short story about baseball...

[Pink]

Jon wrote: "I'm in. I went to see a talk by DeLillo a month or two ago and he said that this was the only book he misjudged the length of before writing it. It was meant to be a three or four page short story ..."

Haha, that in itself is hilarious! I'll be skipping this, as I am swamped with current group and buddy reads, but I'll be interested to know what you all think of it.

[Darren]

Under way with Underworld
read first 50 pages last night
going well so far(!)
I'm one of the few British people I know who really likes baseball, so I'm hoping that will help...

[Darren]

The "Prologue" (first 60 pages) is just about the most perfect bit of writing I've ever come across :oO

I'm now about 200 pages in and this is shaping up as a 6-Star
I love everything about DeLillo's writing style
the dialogue is amazing - realistic and stylised at the same time (how is that even possible!?)

[Darren]

just to say I am still reading this (less than 300 pages left now!)
still 6-Star
:oD

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

I'm not fitting this one in for August or September, but it is definitely on my radar now.

[Darren]

just finished
monumental
827 pages and I didn't want it to end
gobsmacked
will let it sink in a bit and hope some review type words become possible...

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Darren wrote: "just finished
monumental
827 pages and I didn't want it to end
gobsmacked
will let it sink in a bit and hope some review type words become possible..."

Cool

[Darren]

very difficult book to review, but made a stab at it:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Wow -- 6 stars from you. Nice review, thank you Darren. I do want to read this one for sure now -- just not sure when.

[Jon]

I've stalled horribly on it. Every time I sit down to read it I love it, its fun, I am compelled along to the next page, and then again.

The second I put it down it becomes this albatross / millstone that I don't want to touch but which stops me from reading other things.

I've rarely had such a massive disconnect in the way I feel about a book like that before.