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This is a masterpiece. Why does /lit/ ignore it?

>> No.19608477

i read it like ten years ago and all i can remember is that a guy had smelly poops because he was getting too close to a special baseball. i like postmodern bricks like pynchon or dfw but delillo just evaporates from my skull faster than i can read him and i've stopped trying to care

>> No.19608497

Delillo is the worst author ever!!!

>> No.19608499

>>19608445
i read it when i was 16, i barely remember it

>> No.19608501

>>19608445
Of all the American post-modern authors, Delillo is easily the worst. He doesn't have the wit or word-play of Coover. He doesn't have the great gags of Pynchon. He doesn't have the fantasticism of Barth. He doesn't have the intelligence of Gaddis.
His stories aren't interesting or entertaining. Pure slogs and schlock.

>> No.19608502

>>19608477
checked and same. I own Underworld but have yet to read it. White Noise bounced right off of me.

>> No.19608505

Kek Delilo filters /lit/ so hard
>>19608501
Especially this guy

>> No.19608509

>>19608477
>>19608497
>>19608501
>>19608502
filtered

>> No.19608511
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>>19608445
Because it's not a masterpiece. It's good, maybe (maybe) a little better than White Noise. It generates no discussion, as you can see. I wouldn't say it was overlong, believe it or not. I enjoyed it as a nice smooth read. The Lenny Bruce part was my favorite. Nothing real deep going on though. Kys.

>> No.19608515

>>19608511
It generates no discussion because /lit/ blindly hates Delillo and has barely read White Noise, let alone Mao 2, Libra, or Underworld. It's genuinely not worth attempting to discuss here.

>> No.19608518

>>19608505
>>19608509
>i read long book
>long good
>right?

>> No.19608524

>>19608515
Case in point
>>19608518

>> No.19608525

>>19608515
>blindly hates
DeLillo has been a mainstay of the /lit/ top 100. Your opinion is uninformed, newfag. Check the archives if you're hungry. (There just isn't much to say—if there was you'd say something interesting)

>> No.19608529

>>19608525
You genuinely have no idea what you're talking about if you can read a book and think there's "nothing to say". I can tell you're in college or something but you really need to learn how to engage with books before you post here.

>> No.19608538

It's entry level reading, like all of dd

lit also doesn't talk about harry potter

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>>19608529
big yawn—say something interesting about underworld instead =^) (you can't and you won't)

>> No.19608546

Unfortunately /lit/'s appreciation of postmodernism begins and ends and Pynchon and DFW. You have to remember most people here are under the age of 25 and only read things that give them clout to their "in" friends. Delillo was branded "uncool", so he's ignored. I doubt more than 2 posters in this thread read Underworld.

>> No.19608550

>>19608546
OP, face it. It's middlebrow nonsense. Let it go.

>> No.19608551

>>19608546
I have not read Underworld, however, unless it was secretly written by a different author than was White Noise, I have no intentions of reading it

>> No.19608557

>>19608551
>>19608550
Thanks for proving my point. You both can go back to whatever flavor of the month philosopher's Wikipedia page you were reading.

>> No.19608558

>>19608546
>most people here are under the age of 25 and only read things that give them clout to their "in" friends.
joke's on you i'm 34 and have no friends