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The Love Post, Day Two: Movies | Popdose — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:47:52 +0000

[...] Popdose StaffHello and welcome back to our three-day Valentine’s spectacular! If you missed yesterday’s introduction, we’re taking time this week to talk about the books, movies, and music we love — and [...]

By: Love

Love — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:06:18 +0000

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By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:15:46 +0000

The first 60 pages of Underworld were great. The remaining 750 were unfit to heat my house with.

By: Brian McCurdy

Brian McCurdy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:30:52 +0000

“Underworld” is my favorite book and DeLillo is my favorite writer. It did take me awhile to read the book and I did have to submerge myself in it. I thought so many passages in that book were hypnotic, the best of which was the opening section. (I've also recommended this book to people who couldn't get into it.) I'm trying to reread it, all 800 pages, as I will gladly invest the time again.

By: EightE1

EightE1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:12:56 +0000

I think in order to really appreciate Underworld — or really any other quality fiction of that enormous length — you have to approach it a certain way, prepared to hunker down and LIVE in it for a while. And it took me FOREVER to read — I was supposed to review it for a local paper, but kept missing the deadline, until the review got killed. But that experience of sort of submerging myself in it was pretty special.

And those first 60 pages are masterful. I remember when the chapter ran in Harpers as a standalone novella, called “Pafko at the Wall.” Just astounding.

Rob
EightE1

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:48:15 +0000

Well, Ken, since Zack hasn't appeared yet to rip Underworld, I'll sneak in and say that I agree with you 100 percent–at least as pertains to the first chapter. It is absolutely the finest 50 pages of literature I've ever read, and I've read it at least five times over the years.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to get into the REST of the book. I always get bogged down in that next section, the whole desert-art thing–I've never made it through that chapter. Instead, I put it down and pick it back up a couple years later, to read about Cotter Martin and about Jackie Gleason spewing bits of hot dog all over J. Edgar Hoover. Sheer brilliance.

By: kshane

kshane — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:24:55 +0000

It's great to see that my colleagues have such wonderful taste in literature. There are some really fine books in that group.