tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post2853124264870118323..comments2024-03-20T19:40:58.078-05:00Comments on The OF Blog: A quote from Don DeLillo's latest novel, Point OmegaLarry Nolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-5363540666041916372010-01-31T14:20:04.093-06:002010-01-31T14:20:04.093-06:00According to this, life has been happening to me. ...According to this, life has been happening to me. *proud* :) I agree. YES!Harry Markovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09140305922494369576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-45846661788744842672010-01-31T02:37:41.133-06:002010-01-31T02:37:41.133-06:00Loved it. Posted my thoughts here: http://blog.mar...Loved it. Posted my thoughts here: http://blog.markcnewton.com/2009/12/14/point-omega-don-delillo/Markhttp://blog.markcnewton.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-78505900349753994992010-01-30T22:04:24.195-06:002010-01-30T22:04:24.195-06:00Having read Cosmopolis but not Falling Man, I can ...Having read <i>Cosmopolis</i> but not <i>Falling Man</i>, I can say at least that I liked <i>Point Omega</i> much better than the former. Changed my mind - will write a short review in the morning/afternoon, as this ended up being a novel that's going to occupy my thoughts until I put them down in writing, it seems...Larry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-17331255956542137722010-01-30T21:43:27.119-06:002010-01-30T21:43:27.119-06:00Martin: I think I need to give Falling Man another...Martin: I think I need to give <i>Falling Man</i> another read. It was a definite improvement after <i>The Body Artist</i> and <i>Cosmospolis</i>, but may have hit me at the wrong time. <br /><br />Strangely, though, I haven't been ducking <i>Ratner's Star</i>. It just took me a really long time to find a copy of it and by the time I did, I needed a break from DeLillo. I just haven't picked it up since. <br /><br />Interesting thing, <i>End Zone</i> was what hooked me on DeLillo and I'm grateful to Professor Fynaardt for assigning it. <i>Ratner's Star</i> is still early DeLillo. I rather prefer <i>The Names</i>, published three years before <i>White Noise</i> - though, to be fair, I haven't checked to see how any of them hold up for me on a re-read.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-28277823026157183312010-01-30T21:25:48.579-06:002010-01-30T21:25:48.579-06:00The Body Artist is a funny one, it must be a delib...<i> The Body Artist</i> is a funny one, it must be a deliberate response to the (justified) acclaim of <i>Underworld</i> but no one likes it. I thought <i>Falling Man</i> was something approaching a return to form.<br /><br />It is interesting Joe steered clear of <i>Ratner's Star</i>. I found it pretty much unreadable. It is an awkard half=point between <i>End Zone</i> and <i>White Noise</i>.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345781894610597191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-16721636652376496312010-01-30T15:02:00.592-06:002010-01-30T15:02:00.592-06:00As if I don't have enough to read at the momen...As if I don't have enough to read at the moment, you have to go and quote that? I have never read any of DeLillo's work before, but I have heard enough positive word about him that, with this fresh in mind, I will certainly be reading some of his work.Jameshttp://dazedrambling.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-75837145904750345452010-01-30T14:06:52.775-06:002010-01-30T14:06:52.775-06:00"I prefer his earlier work"...
Sorry, c..."I prefer his earlier work"...<br /><br />Sorry, couldn't resist using that - and it's not true, because I'm a fan of most of DeLillo's career (the prologue to Underworld...wow!). <br /><br />But I haven't had much success with DeLillo's recent shorter work. Starting with The Body Artist, he's been difficult for me. Even Falling Man. This may sound strange, but his new work is "DeLillo, only more so". And it's too much in a short novel.<br /><br />I've read everything he's put out except Ratner's Star and Point Omega. This includes his plays.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-16347731928268889572010-01-30T13:43:44.632-06:002010-01-30T13:43:44.632-06:00I like it. Some people might call a passage like ...I like it. Some people might call a passage like that "overly introspective" or some such thing, but generally I like to come across reflective asides like this. Also, the passage immediately made me think of this quote from Erikson's Midnight Tides:<br /><br />"The critical part of herself could well have sneered at the contrivance, as if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation." <br /><br />- ZachAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com