Why doesn't anyone ever talk about his best book?

>>9954949
It's not prestigious enough for this board.

But seriously, is it good? Tell me more.

>>9954949
It's the one about the Hitler sex tape. Not as good as FEAR AND TERROR or even the fooseball player

>>9954956
The book is about a lot of things but it essentially concerns the psychological aftermath of the Vietnam war. The premise of the book revolves around a rumored porno of hitler and eva braun in the last days of ww2 with several competing forces trying to obtain it who include a senator, an erotic art dealer, a rogue former cia operative, a twenty year old porn distributor, and the mafia. It gets fairly complicated. However none of these characters are the main characters. One is a female journalist working for the magazine called running dog, which is a sort of radical mainstream edgy production; and a sort of ambiguous (cia? Its never quite clear which organizations these people work for) operative who tries to obtain the film for his mysterious employer. A lot of the book concerns characters who are either discovering the bullshit they've been believing in order to survive, and self destructing thereafter, or characters who are the scum of the country, those who are the problems that reveled in the vietnam war that include profiteers of black market Vietnam reading and politicians. I would also advance that DeLillo means to say that a lot of the vietnam war was due to the fantasies of the people involved, from top to bottom. But the whole book is really about fantasy, I.e. the hitler film, and people attemtping to define themselves within a story, and therefore language. Delillo has this thing running throughout many of his novels that language is essentially erotic. Im rambling now. But the book is also very entrenched in western romanticism and gritty noir and merges the two successfully. I'd say it's in this book, if implicit in Players, he starts to unravel the idea that film and its dream like fabric has invaded the american populace, mostly for the worst. One more thing, if tou wanted to argue against popular belief that Delillo is a paranoid writer, this is the book to begin with. He does a good job showing that despite the fact that several organizations and power structures may be in bed with one another, they are all competing with each other and are too disparate and caught within their own fantasies to ever merge.

>>9955044
Thank you for the informed post.

>>9954949
Next on my Delillo to-read list after Ratner's Star.

>>9957402
That was a great book and a difficult read too. If it weren't for the aphoristic sarcasm I'm not sure I'd even be able to tell it was written by him (which really doesn't say much I guess since that style IS DeLillo)