pick“Why is it so hard to be serious,so easy to be too serious?”The title comes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Omega point:the maximum level of complexity & conscious towards which the universe appears to be evolving. A short bk w/ a retired war advisor & a young film maker ,who wants to make a film about him.In conversation in a remote retreat in the desert,their talks made me ponder if we are missing life in the endless static of our modern world.
pickSuspenseful and cohesive. Some significant unanswered questions, but this is something I'd be interested to hear students' reactions to.
pickLater DeLillo--post Underworld--is polarizing (lots of middling reviews across Goodreads), but I've found I prefer it to his older work!
So for me this is peak DeLillo. Philosophical and moody, barren of plot yet exploratory. He gets his vision out so artfully and concisely--cutting out side notes and distractions--that here he speaks in a voice that comes across as utterly true, surpassing the standard boundaries of what literature can do.
Point Omega: A Novel | 
