Title: No one actually thinks and talks like these characters
Review: It took some doing to get through this novel. The main question that kept hitting me as I carefully read this book was: What kind of people actually think and speak in the kind of overdone, conflagration of semi-metaphysical adjectives that Delillo puts into his character's minds and mouths? The different threads of the story do not come together in the end, so there's a great sense of randomness in this novel. Further, Delillo repeats ideas, I assume, in order to make his point; but I felt a bit belittled intellectually by this. For example, in his brief section about how the crowds are going crazy trying to keep Khomeini's body out of the grave, Delillo keeps telling us over and over again what the purpose is for these people acting the way they do. It just seems like Delillo was trying too hard.
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