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Don DeLillo
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
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. A penetrating look at rock and roll's merger of art, commerce, and urban decay, Great Jones Street "reflects our era's nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).
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- Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street
A good DeLillo, just not a great one. I read this on a flight from SF to Phoenix. While there were parts of it that I loved (again and again DeLillo can throw out a sentence that seems almost electric; a prose version of a perpetual motion machine), he also tried several experiments with this novel that seemed wasted, or perhaps foul balls. Let me list a few:
1. Lyrics - Please GOD don't inspire any future prose writers to suddenly want to fill their novels with lyrics. I understand that this is tempting, especially when writing about a rock legend. However, writing the lyrics of a famous, god-like, rock star is HARDER than writing a good sex scene. That wire is a tricky, slick one to walk.
2. Sex - DeLillo isn't bad at writing sex scenes, but he's not particularly great.
3. The Ending - a real whimper. I'm not sure the book ever was skipping at 4stars or 5, but the ending definitely didn't raise it up in my estimation. If I were to drop this book next to its peers by DeLillo, it would fit closer to 'Point Omega', 'Cosmopolis', and 'The Body Artist' than his great books. And these are all good books, but none great are GREAT DeLillo.
Dawning of the age of God knows what.
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Escape in the Mad Weather of Words
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While I’m not sure what I though about it then, now I am thinking that “Great Jones Street” is just okay. Actually it’s pretty dumb. A burned out rock singer, with one of the worst names (Bucky Wonderlick?!) retires from his band, the road, public eye, disappears into New York City, eventually gets caught up in a bad drug dealer scene and suffers from it. That’s about it. While there are other sides to the story and the writing is unlike others, it is overall, not the best Delillo book IMO.
No one writes like Don Delillo
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