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End Zone – Done Delillo (1972)

End Zone by Don Delillo

July 24, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR13Bingo – Sports Ball Probably the sneakiest anti-Vietnam book I’ve ever read, and this includes Norman Mailer’s pretty sneaky anti-Vietnam book “Why are we in Vietnam?” If you look up American literature during the Civil War, there’s not much there. Sure, Melville and Whitman wrote some war poetry, there’s still a lot of journalism, some essays and poetry, and while the Civil War becomes the focal point of American literature for about a century after, nothing stands out as too connected to the war years. […]

Extra Reading

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Players by Don DeLillo

A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke

Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton

Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

June 7, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’m trying to document all of the books I read on here to better hit my cannonball numbers. These are ones I’ve been meaning to upload into combined reviews but haven’t. Some are good, some are eh, but most of them just didn’t merit a lot of words from me at the time I finished them for various reasons. Who Is Maud Dixon? *** For a similar identity-based thriller I read last year, a reviewer derisively pegged it as The Talented Mr. Rip-off. I didn’t […]

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Underworld by Don DeLillo

April 3, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Underworld exemplifies everything I love and loathe about Don DeLillo. Brilliance, frustration, depth, redundancy. All in 827 mostly readable pages. A book has to be damn good for a reader to put up with it for so long and large stretches of this book are. DeLillo is such a sensory writer; he pens time and memory through sight, smell and touch in such a way as to occasionally leave me breathless. There are passages of this book that will really stick with me. The central conceit […]

The Silence by Don Delillo

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the latest novel by Don Delillo, and it’s a novella, that, and I can’t emphasize this enough, is basically a long short story. It’s a very slim book with large type and big chapter jumps and it comes in at right at 100 pages. It will still set you back $22. There’s about five different mentions that Delillo finished this manuscript before Covid closures happened on the cover and flaps, and my reading up on this suggests that Delillo does not wish this […]

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Don DeLillo, the silence

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:573 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Don DeLillo, the silence ·

The Ultimate Patsy

Libra by Don DeLillo

October 4, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – History Schmistory At one point in Don DeLillo’s imagined version of the Kennedy Assassination, ex-CIA agent Walter Everett, Jr. philosophizes on the art of fabricating a cover story. The key, he says, is to create a sense of unreality through conflicting information, nonsensical contradictions, inconsistencies and the like. It’s this unreality, this messiness, that feels more real in our crazy world. Truth is stranger than fiction after all, so the key to making a fiction seem like the truth is to make it […]

Um…Hockey?

Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

July 27, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Well then. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time and I’ve tried many times. I’m a diehard New York Rangers fan and I thought a fictional take on what it would be like to be a female Ranger would be a blast. But after 10 pages, I soon realize that’s not what “Cleo Birdwell” (aka Don DeLillo) is going for here. This book is really about sex. Lots and lots of sex. Sexual exploration, etc. Which is fine. I’m not a prude. […]

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