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terrypaulpearce 's review for:
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
There's genius in here, for sure, but for me it was a series of oases in the middle of a lonely desert. The prologue is excellent, and there are a bunch of passages and observations that stopped me cold, but there was a lot of what felt like fat, a lot of meandering, and I lost focus a lot in struggling through. There were a lot of connections and characters returned to that had me straining to remember -- there's just too much here to hold it all in your head unless it made more of an impact or was read much more quickly. I'm glad I didn't give up in the end -- hence three stars instead of less, but in my opinion a good edit down to about 50% of the size could've made this into a much better book. I say that as somebody whose favourite book is Infinite Jest, by the way.