A Place Called Vertigo

1. The Rebel Sell: Why the culture can't be jammed, Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter
2. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
3. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
4. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
6. Middlemarch, George Eliot
7. The Code of the Woosters, P. G. Wodehouse
8. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
9. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
10. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
11. Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen
12. The Sandman: The Wake, Neil Gaiman
13. The Sandman: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
14. The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
15. The Sandman: The Doll's House, Neil Gaiman
16. The Sandman: The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman
17. Underworld, Don Delillo
18. The Sandman: Fables and Reflections, Neil Gaiman

So Underworld was good, perhaps brilliant in the last 20-30 pages. One wonders if brief flashes of brilliance are worth 800 some-odd pages of ok to good writing, though in some ways those 800 pages are necessary; buildup and backstory and such. There are a couple of ideas I'm still trying to fully assimilate, which I tried to explain to someone yesterday and failed, I think, to convey effectively. Well, it's one idea, really, that permeates the book and makes it somewhat similar to The Human Stain, in that it's about trash, the detritus of life, though there's more of a physical element to it in Underworld. Like I said, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it.