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Underworld by Don DeLillo

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Underworld exemplifies everything I love and loathe about Don DeLillo. Brilliance, frustration, depth, redundancy. All in 827 mostly readable pages. A book has to be damn good for a reader to put up with it for so long and large stretches of this book are. DeLillo is such a sensory writer; he pens time and memory through sight, smell and touch in such a way as to occasionally leave me breathless. There are passages of this book that will really stick with me. The central conceit […]

The Silence by Don Delillo

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This is the latest novel by Don Delillo, and it’s a novella, that, and I can’t emphasize this enough, is basically a long short story. It’s a very slim book with large type and big chapter jumps and it comes in at right at 100 pages. It will still set you back $22. There’s about five different mentions that Delillo finished this manuscript before Covid closures happened on the cover and flaps, and my reading up on this suggests that Delillo does not wish this […]

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Libra by Don DeLillo

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CBR11Bingo – History Schmistory At one point in Don DeLillo’s imagined version of the Kennedy Assassination, ex-CIA agent Walter Everett, Jr. philosophizes on the art of fabricating a cover story. The key, he says, is to create a sense of unreality through conflicting information, nonsensical contradictions, inconsistencies and the like. It’s this unreality, this messiness, that feels more real in our crazy world. Truth is stranger than fiction after all, so the key to making a fiction seem like the truth is to make it […]

Um…Hockey?

Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

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Well then. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time and I’ve tried many times. I’m a diehard New York Rangers fan and I thought a fictional take on what it would be like to be a female Ranger would be a blast. But after 10 pages, I soon realize that’s not what “Cleo Birdwell” (aka Don DeLillo) is going for here. This book is really about sex. Lots and lots of sex. Sexual exploration, etc. Which is fine. I’m not a prude. […]

Patsy

Libra by Don DeLillo

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Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Birthday. Lee Harvey Oswald’s birthday was October 18 (making him a libra, hence the title!). Two things are common with both mass shooters and high profile assassins: 1. They are almost always male. 2. They almost always have some sort of personality disorder which makes it difficult for them to fit into polite society. Fringe groups prey on these kinds of people. They suck their soul to the marrow, leave nothing left, and abandon them when their presence becomes an inconvenience. […]



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