Underworld or Libra?

Did you think the guy she found in her house was real or just in her head? It kind of through me when she was doing the performance and it was just her but she was talking like he talked. But I don’t know because it also said earlier that she found an uncle or whatever who said he was always running away.

cosmopolis unironically

Easily his second or third worst novel (still decent though)

I thought he's just a part of her imagination, it's how she dealt with the loss for sure, despite this he definitely seemed pretty real while I was reading it

I prefer Underworld over Libra.

i think my passive understanding of forex, high frequency trading, capital, and strange sympathy for affluent people that engage in self destructive behavior in attempts to rid themselves of confines that come with extreme wealth is why I like cosmopolis the most. the character of benno levin is also one of the most tragic i've come across in modern lit. what didn't you like about it?

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It just seemed pretty simplistic compared to his other novels, also the movie kinda improved it in some ways

i've also read mao, libra, underworld and white noise. i'm not the biggest delillo fan but cosmopolis appealed to me for the reasons in the previous post. i also enjoyed mao but that probably has more to do with my interest in the jfk conspiracy than his delillo's writing. which of his lesser known works do you recommend I try next? the synopsis to zero k sounds interesting.

Great Jones Street was a terrific satire, The Names was totally out there, and Point Omega was a work of perfection.

White Noise and Mao II were tepid and boring. Libra and Underworld I picked up but didn't finish.

I wanna read Americana though.

You should check out his early stuff, specifically End Zone, Running Dog, Players, Great Jones Street, Ratner's Star. It's pretty underrated I think.

I finished Underworld but even right up to the end I kept expecting more from it
He would occasionally pick up interesting characters and I'd go wow what kinda cool shit is gonna happen with this guy, but I got all the way to the last page and realized the answer was absolutely nothing
It was so disheartening that I haven't picked up any other DeLillo since

what didn't you like about the book? Did you expect something with the plot? Dat ending tho

The ending didn't seem as wild as I was expecting it to get. I thought a lot more was going to happen with the graffiti artists and the nuns.
You go into the end knowing protag did something horrendously bad, and the reveal of what it is didn't have nearly as much punch as DeLillo seemed to intend for it. As a doorstopper, seeing the boring middleclass life go on for 800 pages before seeing why he had extra sadness on top of the usual boring middleclass life sadness didn't really move me.

libra works as a nice companion piece to American Tabloid, Ellroy barely touches on Lee Harvey Oswald, American Tabloid is more about the American FBI events that lead to Kennedys death

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explain why you capitalize pleb quadslet

DeLillo is basically a less talented version of DFW. The acclaim his books receive results from a combination of masochism, cowardice, and pathetic obscurantist gatekeeping.

There's literally no reason to read DeLillo until you have, at least, exhausted the catalogues of Pynchon, Gaddis, Gass, McCarthy, and DFW. Hell, throw in Auster -- when you realize you hate reading Auster, just imagine what he would be like if he were a lazier writer. That's DeLillo.

Wait, I liked Auster, he was at least a fun read. If he dragged his novellas from The New York Trilogy out to doorstoppers like the other pomo lads it would probably be grating but he didn't.

>good for a novella
Novellas are the greatest length for literature though

Completely wrong. Also your criticism is kinda dumb
>read x, y, z and not a, b, c becsuse they are superior