tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post1745789602944395477..comments2024-02-14T03:20:23.057-08:00Comments on Pop Sensation: Paperback 533: End Zone / Don DeLillo (Pocket Books 78282)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-70945301000035509812012-06-05T07:18:39.892-07:002012-06-05T07:18:39.892-07:00I read this one a few years ago during a DeLillo k...I read this one a few years ago during a DeLillo kick (so to speak). Yes, it's about football, but also ties into fears of imminent nuclear war. As I recall it was DeLillo's second novel and he was trying for too many things at once. All I recall is the novel ends with some sort of game -- poker or chess, can't recall -- between the narrator and some straight-backed former military type. I also recall the narrator's hippie-chick girlfriend, who opens his right-wing mind to the "new sensibilities."<br /><br />DeLillo's early material is weird and fun. It's too bad his short stories have never been collected. I got a bunch of them years ago via Interlibrary Loan, all of them photocopied by various lending libraries from the original magazines. One of them, titled "The Uniforms," was pretty great, about a group of hippie terrorists going around and just killing everyone. It was later collected in the 1973 book "Cutting Edges." You can read more here: http://perival.com/delillo/dduniforms.htmlJoe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-20844762396912495232012-06-05T05:56:40.012-07:002012-06-05T05:56:40.012-07:00Inquirer or Enquirer: does English change on the b...Inquirer or Enquirer: does English change on the border of Ohio and PA?Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17629233158796640144noreply@blogger.com