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This novel's a beauty. DeLillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."

-Thomas Pynchon

>yfw pynchon reviews a book about a reclusive author


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>> No.6124454

I used to prefer Pynchon but as I got older he took the second spot to DeLillo. A true master.

>> No.6124465

>>6124454
What do you recommend by him? I've read Mao II, Pafko at the Wall and White noise.

>> No.6124474

>>6124465
Underworld

>> No.6124481

>>6124454
Do you like Gaddis?

>> No.6124543

MURRICA!

>> No.6124719

>>6124465
I like Libra.

>>6124440
I think Bill Gray in that book is based equally on Pynchon (the unphotographed part) and Rushdie (the political intrigue/fatwa part)

>> No.6124739

>>6124440
These huge encyclopaedic post-war american door-stopper mega tombs are all awful. goddamn it melville, why'd you have to go and give them that idea?

>> No.6124752

>>6124719
If you read Delillo's interview for the Paris Review, you'll find out a lot of Bill Gray's neuroses are in fact based on DeLillo. Gray is probably a composite character based on all writers DeLillo knows.


I want to write about a political massacre in my country that affected my country as much as JFK's assassination affected US. I'll definitely read Libra.

>> No.6124759

>>6124739

This book is 250 pages long.

>> No.6124761

>>6124759
He's just mad that he's illiterate and likes sci-fi.

>> No.6124787

>>6124761
>they were in love... FUCK THE WAR LMAO

my rage is more than real and shared by many.

>http://www.powells.com/review/2001_08_30.html

>> No.6124804

>>6124761
Pynchon is sci-fi

>> No.6125141

don delillo is not particularly reclusive.

>> No.6125153

>>6125141
Neither is literally any author or famous person commonly thought of as "reclusive"

>> No.6125257

>>6125153

what a weird statement. that is not true at all.

>> No.6125273

>>6125257
Whatever exceptions exist are few

>> No.6125300

>>6124787
>muh real life
>muh Flaubert

Fuck James Wood

>> No.6125352

>>6124440

Is this a good novel to start with or should I read something else?

>> No.6125362

If I remember correctly, Bill Grey is actually based in part on J.D Salinger as well.

My favorite part of the books is whenthe conference Bill is supposed to attend gets bombed before anyone even enters the building, and him and his editor just dust themselves off and go to a nearby cafe.

>> No.6125364

>>6125352
White Noise is the best starting point for DeLillo, though the tone is a little different from most of his work.

>> No.6125367

>>6124787
James Wood is basically a gigantic ignorant asshole and a pretty shit reviewer. The fact that he tries to ascribe a "purpose to" or a idealistic representation of what books and reading are supposed to do and mean should already mark him off as kind of shit.

Also, none of that stuff affects this books of DeLillo's anyways.

>> No.6127318

>>6125367
>basically
>asshole
>pretty shit
>kind of shit
>an author can do anything!

Wow! Those are some hot responses there.