End Zone

Don DeLillo is a difficult writer for me to review. His way with language is so magisterial and unique and I've had a time discovering where and why my own words fail in trying to dissemble his novels into meager reviews. In essence, his writing skips over plot in favor of something like a pure exer......more

For someone who knows virtually nothing about American football this wasn’t an easy novel for me to read. The only two Delillo novels I hadn’t read were this and Americana, his first and I’m determined to complete the set. I think it was Martin Amis who said that when we say we love an author we gen......more

An Explosion Over the Desert You could spend weeks or even months inside this short novel. It's as rewarding as it is challenging. There are multiple characters with multiple points of view. It's not clear whether any are supposed to represent DeLillo's reconciled or concluded views, or, rather, whethe......more

Loved re-reading this after 25 years or so. Had nearly no memory of it. Finished it the day after the first NBA playoff games, mid-August in a "bubble," the court and jerseys emblazoned with social justice slogans, all of which relates in a way to this unique, accessible, totally enjoyable distillat......more

Great book. 5 stars easy. Like DeLillo's other novels The Names and White Noise, this book is extremely interested in observing the impact words and how languages work (and don't). There are "alien sounds" and wall tappings and German language hilarity and talking mouths and weirdness about vowel so......more