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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
DON DELILLO MASTER OF THE CRAFT & KING OF MY HEART !!
got a little crazy halfway through and started tracking characters throughout, literally genius in every sense………also after page like 150 shit was flying it felt like mini eps & then when they connected oh my god LOVED!!!
got a little crazy halfway through and started tracking characters throughout, literally genius in every sense………also after page like 150 shit was flying it felt like mini eps & then when they connected oh my god LOVED!!!
Some of the most brilliant writing on a sentence to sentence structure you will ever read. The prologue is one of my three favorite pieces of writing I have ever read (“The Grand Inquisitor” from Brothers Karamazov and “Weight of Glory” by C.S Lewis being the other two). The lack of narrative structure is not necessarily such a drawback due to the entertaining writing throughout. I do think he would have benefited from a better editor but still think it was a worthy read.
challenging
dark
hopeful
sad
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
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This felt that someone was trying to write The Great American Novel via a tickbox of essential elements.
I got on fine with Mao II, but this was just tedious - a series of short stories told in as confusing a way as possible [Brechtian distantiation: check] with a desparate attempt to link them all up in the last 40 pages.
I got on fine with Mao II, but this was just tedious - a series of short stories told in as confusing a way as possible [Brechtian distantiation: check] with a desparate attempt to link them all up in the last 40 pages.
Underworld has a very strong start and a good finish, but I found that much of the plot lost its momentum as it shifted to different perspectives/time periods. DeLillo’s writing style always pulls me in, but much of the themes that were laid out in the first 200 pages weren’t explored as much as I’d hoped later on. For a while, there was enough to be found in just the profound observations about waste, death, and the Cold War, but it fails to advance or go deeper into these themes later on in the story.
Maybe parts of it were lost on me, there were so many moments I loved, but it didn’t feature a good balance of themes and plot like DeLillo’s other works.
Maybe parts of it were lost on me, there were so many moments I loved, but it didn’t feature a good balance of themes and plot like DeLillo’s other works.
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated