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Tag Archives: Underworld
Book Questions:
I got this from my good friend Ted . Naturally I had to go overboard and provide links (to my own blog), and I can never ever answer a question with only one choice. I refuse. What was the last … Continue reading
The Books: “Underworld” (Don Delillo)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Underworld – by Don DeLillo I have very conflicting feelings about this massive tome. Here’s an open letter to Don DeLillo – I wasn’t even finished with the book yet when I wrote that … … Continue reading
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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Snippets. No Context.
“So what do you want?” “I want the whole package.” “You want the whole package.” “Yup.” “Husband, kids, picket fence.” “I don’t need the picket fence. I’m too urban.” “But everything else?” “Yup. But I have about two eggs left. … Continue reading
2005 Books Read
Here is the complete list of books I read in 2005. Underworld: A Novel, by Don DeLillo – which I had started in the fall of 2004- before I went to Ireland – and it took me FOREVER to finish … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged American Sphinx, books read, Charming Billy, Children of the Arbat, Crowds and Power, Darkness at Noon, East of Eden, Edmund Burke, Harry Potter, L.M. Montgomery, Middlemarch, Miracle at Philadelphia, The Great Terror, The Pigman, Underworld, W.B. Yeats, Year of Magical Thinking
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Not Finishing Books
Here’s a very funny piece on being a “serial book-unfinisher”. It made me laugh. I share the writer’s weird guilt over not finishing books – even if I have lost interest by a certain page (especially if it’s a long … Continue reading
Snapshots
— So I’ve got a big Super Bowl bash to go to tomorrow. Lots of fun. We’re all Patriots fans. — I FINISHED UNDERWORLD THIS MORNING. I DID IT. I started that novel in … NOVEMBER? I have no idea. … Continue reading
Dear Don DeLillo:
First off, let me just say, I loved White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Wonderful book, and you certainly are a fine fine writer. This is not in dispute. I am now 3/4 of the way through Underworld: A Novel, … Continue reading
Snapshots
— Wintry weather. At last. I took a long walk this morning as the sun was coming up, and I was loving the icy wind, the cold clear colors in the sky, my fabulous green Marc Jacobs fuzzy gloves. (Ahem) … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Abigail Adams, family, John Adams, snapshots, Thomas Jefferson, Underworld
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Snapshots
— Underworld by Don DeLillio isn’t just good. It’s scary-good. I can’t even describe my response to this guy’s prose. It’s beyond good. It’s not pretentious, or lofty – On the contrary. It is weighty with emotion, with heart. His … Continue reading