I'm looking to get into him, and am currently thinking about picking up either "Libra" or "White Noise." I am, however, open to suggestions if anyone were to recommend a different work with which to start...

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Originally posted by unKeMPt:
I'm looking to get into him, and am currently thinking about picking up either "Libra" or "White Noise." I am, however, open to suggestions if anyone were to recommend a different work with which to start...

Those are both sensible jumping off points for DeLillo. I would probably read both before trying to tackle Underworld.

White Noise is a great place to start, and if you like that you'll immediately want to read another. In my opinion, the 5 novels that comprise his 80's and 90's output ie, The Names, White Noise, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld are the best, with the first and last of those representing the cream of the crop.

White Noise it is, then. Thanks, guys.

So what did you think of it..?

Wow Underworld was a goddamn masterpiece. I love the way that he transports us from the unhidden present where everything is able to be known or found out and gradually as time goes on in the book, and we move further into the past we are transported into the places that the title suggests, the hidden histories that one always suspects are there that seem to determine everything but which no one except those who were there know. Anyone else read it and agree?