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Title: A let-down
Review: This isn't the DeLillo of 'Underworld', 'MaoII', 'White Noise' or 'Libra'. The prose of 'Cosmopolis', for a start, is mannered and laboured, with strange staccato rhythms. The insights into contemporary society have been replaced by platitudes that could have been churned out by any [one] at Wired. And if you're looking for the trademark sly, black humour, forget it -- 'Cosmopolis' is tedious and dry. What a great pity. It is not one's case that novelists shouldn't evolve and change (which is why 'The Body Artist' was welcome) but surely DeLillo is capable of much, much more than this disappointing, charmless volume.
