My full review can be found at: http://booknerdsacrossamerica.blogspot.com/2011/05/cosmopolis-jacques-review.html

There. Finished with and rid of you. Mostly because I'm super behind on my so-many-books-in-a-year-goal. Two stars for being well written.

DeLillo is almost too good; it actually makes me mad in the way that jealousy induces madness. Cosmopolis moves quickly through seemingly ordinary daily routines that are made to appear otherwise through the protagonist Eric's obsessed demeanor. For better or worse, he acts and feels the way he thinks. This affects every facet of his uptight semblance of a tidy upscale lifestyle. He lives for numbers and patterns, the rises and the falls, the lasting effects of a life understood on the big scale.

i was expecting better... why must you let me down Mr. Delillo.

Nope... Didn't like any bit of it. Even though it was well written and received well by others, I just hated the abstract esoteric navel gazing and dialogue that I couldn't see any human using ever. Stupid rich people! Thankfully it was short.

When he died, he would not end. The world would end.

I can't quite tell if this book is intended to glorify capitalism or to humiliate it. Either way, it fits neatly into the canon established by Oliver Stone's cheerful tale of Wall St.

For DeLillo, read White Noise or Underworld. As for Cosmopolis, with another author this might be an intriguing debut, but when a reader has come to expect genius, this read falls far short. Stein would say there's no there there. What makes White Noise great is that despite the stylized construct, there is a realness to the grocery store shopping, the middle-American family, Hitler Studies, the fear of death, standing in line to take a picture of the most photographed barn in America,etc. I'm fine with constructs, but the implausibility of Cosmopolis reigns unchecked. Plus, the asymmetrical prostate as recurring motif?---No.

Cosmopolis:Great DeLillo book, as many of his are, IMHO. This one is about the (maybe) last day of a Newyorker young billionaire as we saw it from both his eyes or from some of the people he met. Crazy strange things happen, even more crazier are the people he met: lovers, bodyguards, artists and driver but while we see all these things developing in front of us is still very difficult not to flow along with the precious words the writer uses to describe this "new Ulysses story".

Grande libro di DeLillo, come molti dei suoi lo sono, secondo me. Questo riguarda un giorno, forse l'ultimo, di un giovane miliardario di New York, visto sia attraverso i suoi occhi, che da quelli di alcune delle persone che incontra. A proposito di persone, la maggior parte sono particolarmente strane al limite della pazzia, e ancora più folli sono le cose che fanno o che gli capitano, ma mentre leggiamo di questi avvenimenti, ancora più difficile resta non perdersi nel flusso delle parole utilizzate dall'artista per descrivere questa storia del novello Ulysse, sia l'eroe omerico che il personaggio di Joyce.