Title: Overrated.
Product review: This book was assigned reading for my contemporary American literature class. My instructor and most of my classmates raved and said how great Delillo is, calling him a genius. I could not disgree more. First of all, his style of writing and utterly pessimistic world views are not my cup of tea, therefore alienating me from the get go. Even worse, nothing he wrote was new to me. None of his ideas were original. If an author has nothing new to tell me & writes in a stlye that doesn't appeal to me, then I feel that book is a waste of my time (and money). Why the critics embrace Delillo is beyond me. I guess some writers are just en vogue and become very overrated in certain periods, much like Hemingway or S. King. I'd avoid this if I were you and read something by Vonnegut or T. C. Boyle. If this is considered the "cream of the crop" of American contemporay literature, we might as well watch T.V.
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