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Underworld

Don DeLillo

3.88 AVERAGE

morning_room's review against another edition

3.0

reveries for future garbage.

ombraluce's review against another edition

5.0

Ha la stessa valenza epica di Guerra e Pace, questo capolavoro assoluto di Don DeLillo, lo stesso respiro, la stesa profondità dei personaggi, solo meno speranza, un fine che non è lieto, nonostante si concluda con la parola Pace, e una violenza tesa, costante, sfolgorante anche quando è sotterranea.
Da inserire nei cicli periodici di rilettura, per esplorarne tutti i meandri.

ryjandi's review

3.0

3.2

stereolabfacts's review

4.0

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jflux's review against another edition

4.0

I actually miss this monster of a book. I have a lot of complicated feelings about it that I may never work through completely.

ikwezi's review

2.0

DeLillo exemplifies the high-literary, late twentieth-century White American Male style to which I aspired, at the peak of my ambitions twenty years ago, but I find that I can barely stand it today. Most prominently, the pretentious, faux-everyman dialogue that was uniformly spouted by the characters irrespective of the decade in which they were supposed to be speaking left me in a permanent state of eye-roll. I was only able to get all the way through the book by keeping a running tally of the ratio of "instances of clueless bigotry" to "moments of transcendent writing." Unfortunately, the final score was 66-32. I had resolved that a losing score of this sort would mean a one-star rating, but at least I can say that some of the characters grew on me over the course of these very long 827 pages, enough to bump it up to two stars.