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For a semi-well-read, average intelligence person, is there any supplementary reading I should do in preparation of this book? I just wanna read it.

>> No.16359940

Just read it

>> No.16359960

>>16359118
no, it's not difficult just long

>> No.16360057

>>16359118
>70 pages in
>I'm olive-skinned, dark like my father was.
gee thanks

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>>16360057
>he couldn't intuit all that based on the opening sentence

>> No.16361700

>>16360057
DeLillo is a based chicano.

>> No.16361712

>>16361700
That'd be Italian, my dude.

>> No.16362033

While I haven't read longer works of DeLillo, the shorter ones (Mao II, Falling Man, White Noise, Point Omega) aren't all that hard or inaccessible on their reference space. They just occasionally draw rather peculiar observations, and often are rather dry in presentation. I doubt Underworld is any different - I expect smart observations on daily occurances.

>> No.16362119

>>16362033
OP here, never mentioned that I did read White Noise and enjoyed it very much. Mostly for the atmosphere, though, I don't know how DeLillo achieves it. This is probably his inheritance from Faulkner, so I'd say it's just his style. In which case, I imagine I'll find the same in Underworld.