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White Noise

White Noise by Don Delillo

July 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is another reread. I first read this book in 2003 or so when I was in college, and while I enjoyed a lot about it, I can’t say I understood much beyond the weird story. There’s a Beckett-like element at play within this novel, as so many of the fat-rendered glut of modern life is broken down into elemental language that gives us both narration and dissection at the same time. It’s like a mid-century suburban novel written by a robot. Our narrator is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Don DeLillo

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:358 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Don DeLillo ·
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First mixed bag of the year!

Love Story by Erich Segal

In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner

Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald

Running Dog by Don Delillo

Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowksi

Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

War in Val D'orcia by Iris Origo

Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg by Joshua Chamberlain

February 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Love Story – 2/5 What do you say about a 50 year novel that feels dead on arrival? This is the novel that became the movie that is often referenced, and seldom watched. The novel is fine. It’s depressingly fine. Our narrator goes to Harvard, meets a girl, they get married, he goes to law school, she gets sick, and she dies. In the middle he loves her father, because he hates his father. His parents mildly but not so mildly disown him (lucky), and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Bukowksi, Don DeLillo, Dwight Macdonald, Erich Segal, George Steiner, Iris Origo, Ismael Kadare, Joshua Chamberlain, Kobo Abe, Thomas Merton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Bukowksi, Don DeLillo, Dwight Macdonald, Erich Segal, George Steiner, Iris Origo, Ismael Kadare, Joshua Chamberlain, Kobo Abe, Thomas Merton ·
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“Why follow me to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am Don’t throw away your basic needs Ambiance and vanity”

Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines

The Eye of the World by Robert Jones

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

December 6, 2021 by vel veeter 3 Comments

Great Jones Street – 3/5 Stars This is an early Don Delillo novel that is ostensibly about a rock musician who seems to be in his mid-to-late 30s, living in a hotel on Great Jones Street in New York City. I don’t know a ton about New York, but I did happen to see Great Jones Street this summer, and these days, it’s a relatively bland and corporatized street in lower Manhattan. In the novel of the novel, it’s a little more sinister feeling, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:504 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny ·
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Thanksgiving Short Books

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahisi Coates

Buck by MK Asante

Yellow-Back Radio Brokedown by Ishmael Reed

Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

The Double Helix by James Watson

Pafko at the Wall by Don Delillo

Williwaw by Gore Vidal

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon

The Hand by Georges Simenon

The Engagement by Georges Simenon

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

Gerald's Party by Robert Coover

November 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Beautiful Struggle – 5/5  Stars I never taught in Baltimore City, but I did teach in Baltimore County, where Ta-Nehisi Coates spends part of high school. (I was two schools over, but the idea was pretty much the same there). So the result is some familiarity here. If I ever met Ta-Nehisi Coates, I think what I would want to tell him is when I was brand new to Baltimore, so when I scheduled my meeting with the MVA (DMV) I went to the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History Tagged With: Che Guevara, Chester Himes, chuck palahniuk, Damon Galgut, Don DeLillo, georges simenon, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, James Watson, MK Asante, Robert Coover, Ta-Nahisi Coates, yasunari kawabata

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:481 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History · Tags: Che Guevara, Chester Himes, chuck palahniuk, Damon Galgut, Don DeLillo, georges simenon, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, James Watson, MK Asante, Robert Coover, Ta-Nahisi Coates, yasunari kawabata ·
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End Zone – Done Delillo (1972)

End Zone by Don Delillo

July 24, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR13Bingo – Sports Ball Probably the sneakiest anti-Vietnam book I’ve ever read, and this includes Norman Mailer’s pretty sneaky anti-Vietnam book “Why are we in Vietnam?” If you look up American literature during the Civil War, there’s not much there. Sure, Melville and Whitman wrote some war poetry, there’s still a lot of journalism, some essays and poetry, and while the Civil War becomes the focal point of American literature for about a century after, nothing stands out as too connected to the war years. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Don DeLillo, sports

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:326 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Don DeLillo, sports ·
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Extra Reading

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Players by Don DeLillo

A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke

Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton

Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

June 7, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’m trying to document all of the books I read on here to better hit my cannonball numbers. These are ones I’ve been meaning to upload into combined reviews but haven’t. Some are good, some are eh, but most of them just didn’t merit a lot of words from me at the time I finished them for various reasons. Who Is Maud Dixon? *** For a similar identity-based thriller I read last year, a reviewer derisively pegged it as The Talented Mr. Rip-off. I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Stained White Radiance, Alexandra Andrews, Dave Robicheaux, Don DeLillo, Donald Westlake, Faction, heist, identity, James Lee Burke, Lemons Never Lie, Louise Hathcock, Louisiana, mystery, New York City, players, postmodern, Richard Stark, Robert Broughton, Satire, thriller, true crime, Who Is Maud Dixon?

Jake's CBR13 Review No:84 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Stained White Radiance, Alexandra Andrews, Dave Robicheaux, Don DeLillo, Donald Westlake, Faction, heist, identity, James Lee Burke, Lemons Never Lie, Louise Hathcock, Louisiana, mystery, New York City, players, postmodern, Richard Stark, Robert Broughton, Satire, thriller, true crime, Who Is Maud Dixon? ·
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