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Title: Puffed Up Trash
Review: A terrible read. DeLillo at his worst, I think, writing in a pastiche of his old sharp style. Sentences are gratuitous, cheap, labored. It appears he visited NYC with a notebook and tried to get down his fleeting scenes. While the plot is OK, it's nothing to crow about. But those sentences give no stunning surprise, no postmodern meaning, no delectable wordplay. Don't get me wrong, I loved Underworld, I liked many of his works, but this one is just plain bad. Head to Will Self's best or Independence Day by Richard Ford -- a great novel.
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