Don DeLillo - Falling Man

Don DeLillo's Falling Man is a modern classic. The greatest living American author writing a book about the seminal moment in modern American history.

The book itself is a story about how New Yorker's woke up on the twelfth of September 2001 and are forced to continue their lives.

I was especially blown away after recently seeing Extremely Loud, Incredible Close. A movie based on a novel about how a child who has Aspberger's deals with the death of his son.

That movie, unfortunately I haven't read the book, felt like a string of events meant to evoke an emotion in the viewer. Here DeLillo presents us with a couple recently separated and we watch as, from the rubble, they try to hang on to some semblance of normal.

The book I loved, I would recommend it, as a matter of fact, I would recommend anything Don DeLillo has written.

Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby

I decided, once again, to try to read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and again landed somewhere around the 100 page mark and bailed. I don't know if I don't have the intes

tinal fortitude to get through such a challenging book or I just have so much other stuff I know I want to read tempting me away from
such a tome. Anyways, once I hit the wall I picked up paper back version of this Palahniuk book and had a blast.

The book is about witchcraft and spells and other absurdities but all grounded in the idea that we are all mentally intoxicated, all of the time, by the constant inundation of media into our lives. I have to admit this is my first Palahniuk book. I do hear though that this is a theme he revisits often. The book was breezy with a narrator just interesting enough to keep me enthused. Palahniuk populates the story with some other personas that might be considered cliche but his play on our fear of quiet, our fear of thought, was definitely enough to keep me turning the pages.

Well done Chuck. Until we meet again.