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However, if you want to experience the true awfulness that Delillo can write (I generally like him, but this book was absolutely abhorrent), read Underworld. It's 800 pages of potentially clever wordplay that never delivers.
Better yet, save yourself and the $15 bucks...

Much like Michelle, I hated Underworld. It was overwritten and just did absolutely nothing for me. I know people who love it, but I think those people are a bit unsound or just like overwritten books.

That said, I wasn't so excited about it that I want to read any more DeLillo. I get mixed reviews, but not enough raves to encourage me. I've heard Libra is good, but JFK just doesn't interest me.

I read somewhere that he had wanted to title the "Panasonic," but the Panasonic people said no.
Anyway, I like it when someone honestly says how much they dislike something a lot of other people like, so thanks for sharing that opinion James.