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Libra
by

Don DeLillo

Eric's review

Sep 14, 2016

it was amazing

bookshelves: americans, hearts-laid-bare, historiophantasmagoria, lurid

Epic poems are wearisome, Poe said. This is a work of genius - but I'm relieved to be done.

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Reading Progress

January 15, 2016 – Started Reading

January 15, 2016 – Shelved

January 19, 2016 –

page 27

5.63% ""Details were a form of contamination.""

February 19, 2016 –

page 133

27.71% "My first DeLillo. And goddamn. Joy Williams was not fucking around when she called him "a great shark moving hidden in our midst, beneath the din and wreck of the moment, at apocalyptic ease in the very elements of our psyche and times that are most troublesome to us, that we most fear. Why do I write? Because I wanna be a great shark too.""

September 13, 2016 – Finished Reading

September 14, 2016 – Shelved as: americans

September 14, 2016 – Shelved as: hearts-laid-bare

September 14, 2016 – Shelved as: historiophantasmagoria

September 14, 2016 – Shelved as: lurid