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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
Author: Don DeLillo
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lav...  more »
ISBN: 430059
Publication Date: 4/2003
Pages: 216
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Publisher: RB Large Print
Book Type: Hardcover
Large Print: Yes
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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amusing in a y2k information mogul type of way. this book owes more to its interesting concept and plot-twists than to any of its characters.
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This book was an intense read, but it is very deep.
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If you're looking for a weird book that will make you think, this one is for you.
Sue-in-AZ avatar reviewed Cosmopolis on + 108 more book reviews
A little odd - reminded me of the books I had to read in Philosophy 101 in college.

I was on a long flight with just this book for entertainment, otherwise I might not have finished.

The book tracks the final day in the life of a billionaire.

Narcissistic, shallow, impulsive, nihilist - everything you would hate in a real person. And everything I ended up hating in the main character.

The story was hard to follow, the characters completely unsympathetic, the violence fairly extreme, the vignettes utterly unbelievable.

If you want a return to your college years and read a book that feels like its supposed to "mean" something but is really just bad writing - this is the book for you!
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Bad timing for this book. I feel like if I had read it on another occasion I would have loved it, but I just finished grad school, and this was too ... introspective, I guess. I am more in the mood for mindless fun right now.

Read this for book club. If it hadn't been for book club, I think I would have given up on it. So I pushed through it even though I couldn't relate to the protagonist (if you would call him that) on any level.

I did like the pie-in-the-face incident and some of the writing, but DeLillo's overuse of the word "what" drove me nuts.

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People/Characters
Eric Packer (Primary Character)
Benno Levin (Major Character)
Torval (Average Character)

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