Running Dog by Don DeLillo REVIEW

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[Mlovesfashion]

I really like the fact that you don't use so many cuts in your videos, It just flows so naturally.

[mikkelandersen]

I love Delillo, it's like a feverdream, i just get lost in the way he writes, he's use of words is so compelling, it's like every sentence is constructed with some kind of aesthetic in mind.

[bighardbooks]

Are you planning an _Against the Day_ read-a-long this year, still? Hope so 😁

[jam-ncut]

I loved Running Dog, too. Like you, I think, I had quite modest expectations for the book. I've read Delillo over many years, but only reached this one this year. It doesn't get much attention whenever you read or hear about Delillo, it is rarely seen in book shops, and the premise seems faintly ridiculous. However, what you get is actually classic Delillo. Not quite as sharply observed, or as funny as White Noise, certainly not as epic as Underworld (though only a few books ever written are), but Running Dog deserves much more attention than it gets (I would say the same about 'Players' too). Great to see your review of this worthy book here, and hope to find more Don Delillo reviews on your channel...I shall search now!

[cameronlamoureux]

Another great video. Might have to start with Running Dog before White Noise now that I know about it. Thanks!

[k.e.]

Do you plan on reading any of Burroughs' works this year?

[HHoo]

I also enjoyed Running Dog. However, I'm a bigger fan of Players. Any chance of reviewing Players?

[warlockofwordsreturnsrb]

Interesting comparison to Conrad's Kurtz!

[omarelric]

Hey man, I’ve been following your channel from a couple of months by now, I feel that it stands out from the others, I don’t have an academic background but i enjoyed some of Pynchon, DFW and Borges works, what can I read that goes deeper into the meta fiction thing and philosophic themes like Borges’s library of Babel?

[paolatinorum]

Slightly off-topic: Check out “Amazons, ” the one DeLillo wrote under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. I think Amazons is one of his best novel, at least his most accessible and funny. Also a favorite by Jonathan Lethem and Rachel Kushner.

[timkjazz]

'Running Dog' is brilliant, great choice to read and critique, another book to check out is Steve Erickson's 'Tours of the Black Clock', a novel dealing with Banning Jainlight, a Pennsylvania lad who happens to be Hitler's private pornographer. To say any more would perhaps spoil the dreamy, imaginative tale that follows, one of sexual obsession, time and the absolutes of evil. If you haven't read Steve Erickson, a favorite of Thomas Pynchon,  author of 'Days Between Stations', 'Rubicon Beach', Arc d'X', 'Shadowbahn', 'Our Ecstatic Days', 'Amnesiascope', 'The Sea Came In at Midnight', 'Zeroville', 'These Dreams of You' and 2 works of non-fiction political campaign books, you are really in for a treat.

[robertcmcdermott]

Thank you for all your work, I really enjoy your reviews; best on YT. Have you read or plan on reading any Thomas Bernhard? His style is very unique.

[yassinebouzid]

Don't you think that Ratner's Star is delillo's most pynchonian novel ? I think i read on wikipédia that it was Delillo's favorite novel in his œuvre

[GeorgeMillerUSA]

Off-topic, but do you subvocalize/move your lips when you read? This is the reason why it took me so long to a read a book, even a shorter one.

[MarcNash]

I have to say this is my least favourite Dellilo (I've read them all except Libra & Ratner's Star)> It just struck me as a far less mature work than what he went on to write - maybe it wasn't best served by being one of his last books for me to get to. But in the light of what you felt, maybe I should give it another look.