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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Meandering and slow, with too much stream-of-consciousness and too many introspective philosophical monologues about the "meaning of it all."
Man weird to learn your the same age as Lee Harvey Oswald when he "did the do". However thanks to the Don Delillo I now know to Just Say NO to the CIA!
3.5 // Libra is a complex, slow-building political thriller that provides a window into the Kennedy era. It tracks the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and other shady, vengeful characters, culminating in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 1961. Delillo fictionalizes an infamous and inscrutable event impossibly shrouded in speculation and conspiracy, clearly pulling from research and historical record yet also filling in the blanks to his likes... and it works. A must-read.
Needless to say that this is a must-read for any fan of Don DeLillo, but it's also a good and interesting study of the JFK conspiracy for anybody who is curious. A very well-thought out book, this is half pseudo-biography of Oswald and half fictionalization of one of the most important events of the 20th Century. Oswald is a man who believed that history was just waiting for him to take his place in it, and also a lost and oftentimes depressed and wandering soul who struggled to find his place in society. DeLillo gets deep into the head of Oswald and those passages remain the most interesting in the novel, but he also seriously examined the plot to kill Kennedy and the conspirators who put it together, up to and including Oswald's murderer Jack Ruby. I would be surprised to find out that Oliver Stone didn't use this book as the lynchpin for his research of the film JFK, though the novel steers fairly clear of Clay Shaw and focuses more on David Ferrie and the CIA organizers. I can't say that this novel is for everybody, but if you have even a slight interest in what happened to JFK and the possible whys that surround his assassination then this will be a good read for you. Personally, I loved it as I am both a huge fan of DeLillo's as well as a bit of a JFK conspiracy nut. Upon reading it a second time I really connected with the story a lot more than I did the first time, though that is probably more an issue of my own environment and state during each of the readings - I was a lot less distracted by my own life this time and I think that's probably what made it a little bit better on the second time around. A fantastic read, but one in which the reader has to pay attention to the small print in order to really take something away from it.
Bit off more than I could chew. Want to retry knowing it’s Ty as heavy as it is