++I was pleased to read the lead review in today's Book section of the New York Times was an appreciation of the new novel by the 80-year old literary lion.
++My favorites of DeLillo's novels are "Underworld", "Libra", and " Mao II".
++"Zero K" is a novel of the 21st Century. All the maladies facing us appear sideways in the story. DeLillo's prose weaves from acute observations of the mundane to philosophical rifts on the meaning of Life. The plot is a type of conceit where a billionaire funds the Convergence Project to preserve humans cryogenetically in Kazahstan for their eventual recovery in new genetically modified bodies to face a world obliterated by war and global climate change.
++This was off putting to me but DeLillo hypnotizes you with the psychological struggles of the father and son and the son's narration of the story.
++I flatter myself in thinking I actually thought like DeLillo about these issues. That's how seductive I found the prose.
++A great read and a hopeful sign that someone retains his power into his 80s.
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