![]() ![]() ![]() Just not sharp and interesting enough to make this anything more than a G-chord (muted middle finger) of a novel. Also, Eco's critique of journalism was pretty sharp. The Mussolini/Vatican/Gladio/Stay-Behind conspiracy WAS interesting. There were a few interesting sections of this novella. Seriously, where was the editor? OK, to walk back my review, just a bit. And let me just say that when writing a book of less than 200 pages, all future authors take note, PLEASE don't use the term 'danse macabre' more than once unless you are writing ON the medieval genre or allegory or personification of death. The minor books these greats wrote in their later years (Roth's entire Nemesis series, for example) just seem like the apathetic efforts of grumpy old men who don't know how to NOT write, but actually seem fairly uninterested in the processes now. Philip Roth with 'The Plot Against America'. Delillo seems to have hit his high mark with 'Underworld'. ![]() Isn't that what science says?" - Umberto Eco I'm not sure what it is about aging, but some of my favorite writers DeLillo, Roth, and Eco produce absolutely sh!t novellas in their later years. Suspect, always, suspect, that's the only way you get to the truth. ![]()
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