![]() Of course not everything thing by DeLillo hit with me there were times when I found passages redundant, uninteresting, or crossing too far over into the realm of pretentiousness. ![]() Reading him was the thrill of a great roller coaster.ĭeLillo, suffice it to say, changed the way I thought about language - particularly its inherent musical qualities. I didn’t know sentences could possess such sheer power and force: the ability to grab hold of you and take you along for a ride. It was DeLillo who was one of the first writers who made me pause in the midst of reading and remark to myself, “This is like nothing I’ve read before.” The long prologue to Underworld - to cite a prime example of DeLillo’s effect on me - made me think he was some kind of magician with words. I think I read just about everything of his with the exception of Libra (perhaps a surprise to some since it’s one of his better-known books). ![]() ![]() A few years ago I went through a relatively brief, but intense, phase of reading Don DeLillo’s novels. ![]()
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