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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Postmodern Thread -- Pynchon, DeLillo, Barthelme, Gaddis, DFW, etc.
 
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Jan 9, 2007


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I really enjoyed Don DeLillo's White Noise, but I found Underworld to be much less fun to read. It had hardly any humor at all, and I finally put a bookmark in it on page 500. I came across Libra and Mao II at a cheap book sale, so I picked them up. Are they a little lighter reading?

I wouldn't say Libra was any lighter than White Noise. It's really, really enjoyable, though, and wasn't really at all what I expected. The pseudo-historicalness of it was pretty great and it would probably benefit you to have more than a passing knowledge of the events and players in the JFK assassination and aftermath.

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