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.