Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Mao II: Part 1


The preface of this story was very interesting.  I actually really enjoyed reading about the mass wedding.  As weird as it was, it was interesting to hear the story from Karen’s parent’s point of view as well as her own.  DeLillo has a very unique style of writing that is a little hard to get into.  He definitely tends to jump around a lot which can be frustrating at times for readers.
It was definitely a complete shock to go from the preface into chapter one.  I was almost a little mad that the story didn’t continue on from the mass wedding.  I found the first five chapters to be little boring.  I am not a fan of not knowing where a story is going to go.  I like to have a general idea of what the book is going to be about so that I know if I will like it or not.  However, DeLillo keeps readers out of the loop for quite a while, jumping from character to character.  

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