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aarongertler 's review for:
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
3.8 stars. The first 50 pages were beautiful, but after the next 50, I began to flip around the book at random, which didn't seem to hurt my understanding of the plot (there isn't one, in any conventional sense), but did allow me to escape boredom whenever it began to grip me.
Achingly well-written in many places, with quite a few pages I photographed for later viewing and inspiration, but doesn't go for long in any one chapter without beginning to meander. Try the random-flip method like I did and you'll get the better parts of the book without feeling obliged to finish. And then, if you really want to know what it was "about", read some reviews. Let the critics do the heavy lifting, because they're getting paid and you aren't.
Achingly well-written in many places, with quite a few pages I photographed for later viewing and inspiration, but doesn't go for long in any one chapter without beginning to meander. Try the random-flip method like I did and you'll get the better parts of the book without feeling obliged to finish. And then, if you really want to know what it was "about", read some reviews. Let the critics do the heavy lifting, because they're getting paid and you aren't.