u/Future-Slip2217

I check the price, expecting maybe $10+, nope, motherfuckers sent that out with a 7¢ decrease. Burn in hell 30 trillion times over.

They ought to call him Donald Duck, on account of his big bill and the fact he's a real quack!

I breezed by the earlier essays, loving every moment of them, even loving the first ten or so pages of Up Simba, but good lord, around the point in time where he's going on and on and brings up wearing a leather jacket because he's convinced Rolling Stone is still the cool-guy publication I had to stop. Did this essay work for anyone else? I get that a decent chunk is to show how miserably dull the act of following a politician around can be, deciphering the hierarchy of each minute strand of outer-proximity figures, but in its dissection of this severely dull behavior, it simply just made up for a severely dull read for me.

Obviously it was cheap, but I am a bit bummed. Will have to re-glue a book for the first time, I'm not certain I could read it in its current state.

Read this one about half a year ago and I resented having to go back to it day after day, for such a slim book it took ages to complete and I felt absolutely nothing by the time I finished it, stopped my seemingly blossoming Delillo journey in its tracks. Since then, I can't seem to stop thinking about the book. At first, weeks after I finished it, I would refer back to it ironically, "Imagine if you will, the dullest book ever written," but a couple months later I've been deconstructing the plot in my head over and over. In this time I've been attempting to figure out A. why this book was even published to begin with, it seems he doesn't have much to say on any thematic element despite the book being completely tied to themes rather than plot, and B. why I can't let go of this stupid book and why I think about it relentlessly. Would love to hear other people chime in, perhaps you've gone through these same motions.