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Title: Good idea; poor writing
Review: DeLillo has a critical following, so I thought I would give him a chance by reading this short novel. The novel explores a day in the life of a young Wall Street billionaire, Eric Packer. DeLillo does a nice job of narrating the stream of consciousness of his protagonist and exploring his combination of narcissism and existential anguish. What's missing is any sympathetic character who points the way toward a viable alternative to the bankruptcy of modern American life. Another glaring, and perhaps fatal, weakness is DeLillo's inability to write dialogue -- a rather surprising deficit for a "modern master." DeLillo's descriptions of Packer's thinking and internal mental life are believable and sometimes compelling. But what he says and what others say to him is wooden and so bad as to be laugh-out-loud funny.I don't recommend this book. I may still try to read one of his other novels, but this one is a clunker.
