/lit/ - Literature

Because it's DeLillo. Great book.

>>19699649
I love this one, looking to bring some DeLillo to my book club, but I can't justify making them read something this long. Any standouts among his shorter work? (ideally under 300 pgs)

>>19699700
Mao II

>>19699700
white noise is great, like a miniature prototype of underworld, but i know a bit basic - another idea might be to first put forward just the baseball scene that begins underworld, it almost functions as a standalone story, and then when they're hooked, you've successfully radicalised them into a delillo reading cell and u can go further.

What of his should I read if I hated the body artist?

>>19699649
Because Chicanos know how to write

>>19699787
mccarthy

>>19699700
cosmopolis is 220 pages and i think underrated (although most of his other books are certainly better)

>>19699649
My favorite chicano writer

>>19699736
Oh yeah Pafko at the wall is a great idea.

>>19699649
Can I read this translated in my language or I will miss too much?

Libra is obviously the superior novel

Where should i start with Delillo, bros?

>>19700107
Running Dog, Libra or White Noise.

>>19699821
Way ahead of you, I already have Outer Dark on loan.

>>19699787
The Body Artist is probably his most poorly received novel ever besides maybe The Silence. So start over with Libra.
>>19700107
Libra

>>19700863
>The Silence
2.70 on goodreads. What happened?

>>19699649
White Noise was the work of an amateur hack and I have seen no reason for it to be regarded as even a good book, much less a classic.

>>19700945
LILLOD

>>19700931
If a challenging, unapproachable novel by a (white and male) literary author gets published and has lots of promotion today, midwits get filtered and review bomb it. It didn't help that they advertised The Silence as a novel inspired by the pandemic and social media which sucked in these idiots. See also, The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen (2.97) and Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (3.23), though Delillo got it the worst of all. The Silence is a perfectly fine late Delillo novel: I'd rank it around the middle, near Zero K.
If you see a sub-3.50 score for a literary novel published in the last 10 years on Goodreads, that tells you the book is actually different from the pack and is more worth your time than the latest Booker winner.

>>19701388
kino

I bought this book for $3, should I read it?

>>19701456
You absolutely should

>>19701456
Why would you buy it then

Midnight in Dostoevsky is my favourite.

>>19699700
White Noise is really the best. Mao II and Cosmopolis are second rate in comparison

>>19700091
someone made this and I just had to save it

>>19701859
I read White Noise and absolutely hated it. What am I missing?

It seemed to me that all of his characters are just mouthpieces for the author, and otherwise totally drained of life and humanity. Like, there is not one single "human" interaction in the whole book.

>>19701859
Ratner's Star and The Names are his best novels.

>>19701859
>>19702019
It's End Zone you plebs.

>>19699649

I have little-to-no interest in modern fiction but a small part of me wants to read this book for no other reason than that I really like the techno band Underworld, who wrote a song called "Mmm Skyscraper I love you" many years ago.

>>19699700
listen to me
>>19699708
GARBAGE
>>19699736
GARBAGE
>>19699946
GARBAGE
>>19700091
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, BASED, AND REDPILLED

READ LIBRA
HEY>>19699700
READ LIBRA

>>19701874
That's exactly why it's good. Don Delillo, by himself, is better than 99.9% of humans and their interactions.