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Underworld by Don DeLillo
2.0

Dropped it after about 345 pages. I don't know, if someone asked me what this book was about, I'd say a baseball, a ship full of shit (maybe?), and it's moving in reverse chronological order which isn't the least bit fun.

On a sentence level, the writing is stellar. It's. the only reason I really made it this far, but life's too short to dabble in the philosophical nature of waste. Too many POV shifts. Too many exchanges where two people aren't really talking to one another. Too much time spent on baseball in the beginning only to abandon it for the most part later.

Also, there's a new Karen Russell book sitting in my bag that I can't stop thinking about. Maybe it's not DeLillo's fault entirely.