do you think don delillo speaks like a character from a don delillo novel in real life

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System, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link

I just tried to read The Names, and ugh, that guy's dialogue is sooo lame. His characters use the same syntax and prose as his exposition=boring.

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set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link

i read an interview with him where he claimed that he got every line of dialogue in his book by transcribing verbatim overheard conversations on public transport. which just cannot be true because nobody speaks like they do in his books ever.

plax (ico), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link

books

plax (ico), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link

In his books.

set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link

three years pass...

zero k coming in may
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Zero-K/Don-DeLillo/9781501135392

johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 January 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link

lol, good thread

big Mahats (mattresslessness), Sunday, 10 January 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

lol wow

Let me ask about something that’s not in “The Silence,” at least not anymore. In the first galley copy I read, there’s a scene in which a character is reciting disastrous events and mentions Covid-19. Then I was told there were changes to the book and was sent a second galley. Covid-19 was gone. Why did you take it out?

I didn’t put Covid-19 in there. Somebody else had. Somebody else could have decided that it made it more contemporary. But I said, “There’s no reason for that.”

lag∞n, Monday, 12 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link

Can't read as I've not got a subs but it sounds wild

Don DeLillo really talks like a Don DeLillo novel pic.twitter.com/wPhP3PQtK6

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) October 12, 2020

xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 October 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link


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