A review by binstonbirchill
Underworld by Don DeLillo
2.0
I went back and forth a few times with this book. It starts off with a prologue about a 1951 baseball game that coincides with the Russians testing “the bomb”. We jump forward to the 90s and gradually make our way back. The cast is rather large, with no particular character being of too much interest or importance. America in the post war years serves as the focal point.
What DeLillo writes about doesn’t really interest me but then for a few pages he does something I find quite interesting, whether it’s the few moments where two character’s are having three strands of a conversation at once, or the best moments in the book for me, the couple times we have pre coital interlocution between characters I can’t even remember. My interest in the book started out moderate and went down, came back for a hundred pages or so, went way, and then by the end it wasn’t really too enjoyable and I had to settle for ⭐️⭐️
What DeLillo writes about doesn’t really interest me but then for a few pages he does something I find quite interesting, whether it’s the few moments where two character’s are having three strands of a conversation at once, or the best moments in the book for me, the couple times we have pre coital interlocution between characters I can’t even remember. My interest in the book started out moderate and went down, came back for a hundred pages or so, went way, and then by the end it wasn’t really too enjoyable and I had to settle for ⭐️⭐️