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Ratner's Star
Ratner's Star | Don DeLillo
1 post | 5 read | 5 to read
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star  follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).
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Ratner's Star | Don DeLillo
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Mehso-so

Another random audio choice. This is 1976 DeLillo, his fourth novel, my first time trying him, but my attention wandered a lot. Tons of characters, most scientists, each with there own philosophy which they give in detail and that starts in their field and then goes off the rails somewhere. He plays a lot of games trying to undermine the concepts of science, logic and math as soulless. Finished earlier this month (#audio #reviewbacklog)