Don Delillo,
I am disappointed. I did not like Falling Man. Most of the writing is rather mundane. There seems to be no story line. The beginning and end of your novel are predictable and the best written out of the entire 246 pages. Most of your characters are flat and do not promote anything remotely stimulating. I hardly felt a connection with them. I do not understand your decision in including the terrorists in your novel. Your "falling man" ironically dies of natural causes. I don't understand the Sex. Your novel does not make sense. Maybe you were trying to give the reader a sense of what it felt like after 9/11...a whole bunch of discombobulation and emptiness....searching for answers. However, I do not like your approach. I think that there are better ways to do what you attempted to do and in my personal opinion, ultimately failed to do. There are some beautiful moments...scattered paragraphs that declare that there is a writer in you somewhere. I just wish that he would have shown himself more.
Some moments in history should be left to be told by the real survivors of these tragedies. That is not to say that there is not some wonderful fictional writing out there that does a beautiful, honorable job in portraying what it may have been like for survivors. Your novel is just not one of them.
That is all.
-Jakob
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