End Zone.

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Meh submitted by Meginator on July 19, 2011, 9:58pm I think this is a thoroughly mediocre book. Usually, bad books make me angry or at least give me something productive to think about, but I found that I just didn't care about "End Zone." The characters' descriptions and, indeed, actions were so wildly at odds with their words that I ceased to believe in them and thus to care about the story. I believe that Don DeLillo is onto something interesting in comparing the brutal, quick-hit, done-in-a-flash violence of football to nuclear war (and particularly in 1972, when that was still a fairly possible option), but he simply fails to make anything meaningful out of it. I just couldn't bring myself to care about this book, but I suppose the bar had been set so low at the beginning that I didn't really mind when it didn't deliver anything. DeLillo tries just a bit too hard to make something subversive and postmodern, and instead ends up with a narrative that has movement but absolutely no emotion. This book is, I believe, thoroughly mediocre.