Comments on: On Rereading

By: Trée

Trée — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:49:45 +0000

Blood Meridian is worth rereading. Cormac’s masterpiece in my mind.

By: ed biblioklept

ed biblioklept — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:51:35 +0000

I agree with you. I just reviewed it today, so I won’t bother rewriting anything, except to say that J. Edgar Hoover was my favorite character in the book. Also, I think your characterization of Nick as an archetypal everyman is interesting, given that he’s a murderer–but you’re kind of right, I think.

By: dave c.

dave c. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:34:24 +0000

I’d like to hear your thoughts on Underworld when you’re finished with it. Personally, I thought that while most of the book was really well written, that it didn’t add up to anything particularly special. The main character was an archetypical everyman who I didn’t end up caring about. I felt the same way about most of the characters that populated the book. No one did anything of any real import, they were either self-satisfied or not. The garbage/waste/recycling motif seemed a bit obvious.

Delillo only exhibited joy when he was writing about the baseball. The first twenty or thirty pages, the Shot Heard Round the World, his depiction of Sinatra and Jackie Gleason were magical. The rest, while impressive, was often tedious, the ordinary life of an ordinary guy who never really strived to escape the tedium that grips us all, in life, and throughout most of Underworld.

Let me know if you think I’m a moron.