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One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, a genius adolescent who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, and mathematical theories as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel.
Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names.
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Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: Their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple...and still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them and that they have helped to create.
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- De Darwin8u en 06-02-18
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Americana
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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At 28, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream - and the dream making - become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.
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DeLillo's Grand First Step
- De Darwin8u en 06-29-17
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Running Dog
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York City journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process, she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to “star” Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master's early career.
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"Imperialist lackeys and running dogs."
- De Darwin8u en 08-18-18
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Point Omega
- A Novel
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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Richard Elster was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency". We see Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience.
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- De Meena en 06-22-10
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Falling Man
- A Novel
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: John Slattery
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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In the opening scene of Falling Man, Keith Neudecker emerges from the smoke and ash of the burning tower where he worked, and makes his way to the apartment of his ex-wife and young son uptown. Throughout this bold and haunting novel, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships, reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world.
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A Reflection on Humanity
- De PSprout en 06-05-07
De: Don DeLillo
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Great Jones Street
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In midtour he bolts from his band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape.
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Dawning of the age of God knows what.
- De Darwin8u en 08-09-17
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The Silence
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Bobb, Marin Ireland, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 52 m
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It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity.
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A waste of a good premise
- De Adam en 10-23-20
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The Body Artist
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Laurie Anderson
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Since the publication of his first novel 30 years ago, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life real figures. The Body Artist is DeLillo's haunting and profoundly moving new novel.
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Excellent in every way
- De John en 04-30-05
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Mao II
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott; and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's.
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- De Jason en 02-07-22
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Libra
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 18 h y 21 m
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In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
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Narrator's Monotonous Tone Ruined Book
- De Dan in DC en 12-03-16
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Underworld
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 31 h y 22 m
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Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.
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CYBEX burned into my eyes
- De Ruth Ann Orlansky en 07-01-12
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End Zone
- De: Don Delillo
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war - the language of end zones - become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course.
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Zero K
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Thomas Sadoski
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his 60s with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to lives of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body.
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Everybody wants to own the end of the world...
- De Darwin8u en 05-11-16
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
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The Angel Esmeralda
- Nine Stories
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Cerveris, Peter Friedman, Heather Lind, y otros
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Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison, and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists, and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it.
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Stories that seem to anticipate a hidden disaster
- De Darwin8u en 10-13-12
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Gravity's Rainbow
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- Narrado por: George Guidall
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- De Jefferson en 07-04-16
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Cosmopolis
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Will Patton
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It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end, those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments.
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My favorite book
- De Alnia Perpoz en 08-18-09
De: Don DeLillo
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ratner's Star
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- Anonymous User
- 04-03-21
5 stars for Ratner
Another mind bender by DD... if you like his stuff this is a must... radical
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- Nick W.
- 03-03-20
The Chimeras of the Scientific Mind
This is not a book for everybody. And it is not science fiction do much as a farcical observation anout scientific endeavor and the human beings who engage in it.
Billy is a sort of innocent straight- man /voice of reason, and the novel leads him through absurd encounters with the antic and sometimes almost frightening denizens of the strange isolated environment of the novel, a multi-nationally funded research center engaged in a variety of ridiculous almost post-modern fields of study, primarily the interpretation of a message received by radio telescopes from a distant star.
I wouldn’t duscourage anyone from reading this, but I suspect many readers will not connect with it.
It is dense, beautiful, silly and profound, overflowing with beautiful language and pregnant with endless ideas, and written on the kind of beautiful indulgent prose DeLillo more sparingky employed in his later novels. It is bubbling with information and I sight, and reading it is a lavish treat for readers who have a fairly broad experience of scientific language and a live for the sheer beauty of words and concepts.
It has little plot, it is mostly a series of quirky characters, weird encounters, and descriptive language so wonderfully crafted that it reminds us of what the written word can do at its best.
I love this book, and the right people will, also. It has no action, to speak of, no real story arc, no predictable outcome or single resolution. It’s beautiful, dense, challenging, hilarious, thought-provoking, profound, absurd, and oddly sad.
It’s like Monty Python, in that you will like it, or you will not like it. There will be little middle ground.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-31-23
mathematics in wonderland
If you just watched White Noise and want more Don DeLillo,.....well, this isn't the book to start on. Try Libra or End Zone or Running Dog.
Ratner's Star is structured like Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass---hence the titles Adventures and Reflections for the two main parts.
Lots of oblique visits with new characters each chapter that you never see again.
In Tom LeClair's analysis In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, he has a chart similar to the famous schema for Joyce's Ulysses. Each chapter has a mathematician, a concept, an Era and a specific math reference. For example, chapter 6 is titled Convergence Inward, with Period 18th century and Euler and Lagrange dominating. Mathematical specialization is the reference, with Limits the Concept. There is a thick book on the History of Mathematics on DeLillo's shelf.
As a conventional mystery, Ratner's Star disappoints. The signal from space turns out to be a Maguffin. The solution doesn't make sense, but the problem is more likely to be with me than the author. In Gravity's Rainbow, the main character disappears from the novel three-quarters of the way through. I'm sure DeLillo had his reasons.
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- Darwin8u
- 12-25-20
Sitting alone in a room isn't enough.
"Sitting alone in a room isn't enough. We should turn out the lights as well. The only way to survive is to curtail one's perspective, to exist as close to one's center as possible."
- Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star
I'm going to have to chew on this one. Which means two things. I'll either run off and never return or chew, swallow and excrete something in good time. IT is a tangle for me. Clearly, parts I loved; parts I think I understood; and parts that are absolutely off the charts. I can see this novel reappearing in parts of the Underworld, Zero K, Point Omega, etc. DeLillo loves exploring Man on the edge.
I should also note, as far as Delillo's published novels, I am now a DeLillo completist. I still have a few more short stories, a few more plays, and Amazons by Cleo Birdwell to read, but if I was checking off his 'also by' books in the front of his most recent book, I'm a completist. I'll call it a small 'c' complete and leave it there. I just ordered a copy of Amazons so I can check that off and am scrambling around trying to locate his early short-stories.
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- Kelly
- 06-14-19
SciFi and I don't mix well.
This is another try at science fiction for me. I keep hoping to find more books in the genre that I will love, but so far I can count on one hand the number of them that I have loved. This one is not among them.
DeLillo has many ideas, and it is obvious that he is intelligent and well-informed. In this novel, he experiments with mathematics, science and logic. He obviously did his research, and his discussion of the world of science is at times quite beautiful. It is difficult and dense and yet somehow the science felt accessible to me. I like this part of the book. Unfortunately that was the only part of the book that I enjoyed though. I simply didn't connect with the characters in any way, and didn't care about the story either.
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