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corianderstem said:What did you think of Underworld? I have it on my shelf, and keep looking at it, wondering if I'll ever get around to reading it.
Underworld made me feel for the six weeks it took me to read it. As far as the writing goes, it's DeLillo at his best--really lovely sentences. The reverse chronology of the book makes it really confusing in places, though, and frankly I felt a little let down by the end. You don't read 800 pages without expecting a bang at the end, but I gues it makes sense based on the story that there isn't a bang, but rather something more quiet.
The sections about Klara Sax were especially amazing to me, though, and you can read the opening section of the book (about the baseball game) without needing to read the rest. In fact, DeLillo actually published it separately as a novella. I'm not even that much of a baseball fan and I loved it. I'd say give that a read, and if you like it, try to keep going.
I've also read The Body Artist, which I hated, and am slowly working through Great Jones Street, which is from early in DeLillo's career and lacks that beautiful sentence style he developed later. Underworld is massive and overwhelming, but in the long run, I think it's a book I'm glad I read.