Some things are so central that they eventually must be covered by authors who span a complete discussion of the human condition.

You live in a world inundated with branding, with consumerism, with media making decisions for you, impacting your life, driving you. Reading the novel is an exercise in understanding the form, but even with the suburban details, the plot, the airborne toxic event, and the characters are strong. This is combination is really well captured, well detailed, I could only wish for a bit more impact of Hitler into the storyline, but certainly that is due to my own tastes. Overall, quite a good piece, but then as it is DeLillo I am biased.

July

Novels are mostly written by authors. Sometimes they write about authors. Like this book – an author can’t finish his novel, even though it is done, and has been complete for quite a while. But maybe something isn’t correct or it isn’t as good as he feels it should be. So he rewrites and paces and rewrites and then seeks other outlets, crowds of people, photographers, travel, public speaking.

I enjoyed this book, and DeLillo is a master. He knows what he is doing, it is not long but it is epic and says just what it needs to as it pulls you to where you need to be.

And remember: “The Future Belongs To Crowds”