[lit-ideas] Re: Don DeLillo's _Falling Man_ brief excerpt
- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:59:46 -0400
There's no disputing taste. Some friends feel the same indifference to
Nabokov, some to Richard Powers, some to Lorrie Moore. All I can state is
that I'm sorry you don't enjoy his writing the way I do.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've tried DeLillo twice (White Noise and Underworld) and I just don't
> get the attraction. The blurbs on the books are intriguing... the
> books are not. I think his kind of writing is the number one reason
> that an American author hasn't won the NobelPPforLit since '93 and
> that was just a token vote. Of course, when you look at who HAS won it
> in the past 25 years, well, it's actually a wonder that Delillo isn't
> in there.
>
> saying nothing either way,
> p
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