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Want to a read a book like the preface of Mao II 2017-09-03 04:09:05 Post No. 9973305
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Thought White Noise was boring, too straightforward, not interesting enough. Slow is OK, maybe my favourite book is To the Lighthouse, but if it's slow I want real deep at the same time. The prologue to Mao II was exactly what I wanted, blew me away, a brilliant bombardment, maybe top-5 pieces of writing I have ever read, but then the rest was pretty White Noise-y. I'm really into the theme too, image-creation, terror-as-statement, but felt it came up short.
What should I read? What am I looking for? (Is it Pynchon? I've only read CoL49, thought that was mediocre, though laughed a fair bit)
Either help me out, or thoughts on DeLillo in general.
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>>9973305
read Mao I
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>>9973444
thanks for bump
also, chuckle
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>>9973305
Gravity's Rainbow is miles better than Crying.
Underworld is also gonna give you a bit more of what you want. It's not consistently great, but it does have those show-stoppers, including the first 60 or so pages of the novel.
Yeah, the opening to Mao II really is something else. Delillo is one of the greats for sure.
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>>9973511
yeah that part
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>>9973620
Yeah Underworld is, in sum, great. At least read it's first chapter, separated and sold separately as 'Pafko at the Wall'; it is by far my favorite piece of writing by DeLillo.
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>>9973620
Underworld has, arguably, one of the greatest opening sentences in literature.
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