Cosmopolis: A Novel Audiobook

" A weird miss from such a talented writer. Short, maybe an afterthought. Was it written as it is set: in the back of a car stuck in horrible traffic? It's interesting to think about this foreign currencies trader at the back end of a business degree. When I read this book, my mind was as far from financial markets as possible... That world seemed mythical to me, as an outsider. While I'm still not an insider, I've been hanging out with financial folk for the last two years and can say that the mythologizing of them is... unearned. Even when their acts have impacts of superhuman proportion, they are decidedly banal sorts of souls, or at least distracted by banality. "

" 2.5. It's a difficult-to-follow, mind-boggling, bizarrely complicated book, like none I've read before. While you do know get the gist of the story, the writing... idk, throws me off track quite a few times. I'm 18 years of age, so perhaps it's the maturity thing, but it's anything... but easy. That being said, I'd still love to see how the movie plays out. xx "

" Like a shorter, less exciting American Psycho, Cosmopolis featured a city-boy protagonist it was hard to warm to, and very little plot to relate to. It was indeed ok. "

" Libro orribile, noiosa la prosa, complicata, involuta. La storia mi lascia del tutto indifferente. Tempo perso. DA NON LEGGERE "

" this was a nightmare to get through. "

" It's always kind of amazing when a novel can hit it and quit in around 100 pages. Not the greatest novel ever written but worth the read. "

" It took me two hours to read, then i hurried to a lecture and felt perfectly concentrated the whole time. Mean to say it woke me up. "

" Well worth reading, this book focuses on the day in the life of a financial genius and failure and on the consequences of his manipulation of markets and ultimately people. "

" Certainly not as good as White Noise, and damn the ending. Damn it I say! But DeLillo still brings something extraordinary to the pages with Cosmopolis. "

" So I finished the book. The author's conversational skills are horrendous and often makes no sense. I had to re-read several sections because the author gets lost with too many characters involved in a short period of time. It's hard to follow as he sometime's jumps back. "

" he's so good with dialogue; too bad everything else wasn't as good "

" DeLillo's strength is the strength of his prose style. It is almost enough to carry this novel, for his strength is also his weakness. I feel like I've had a workout at the gym--tired, sweating and yet satisfied at having finished. "

" Taking forever to finish this book..I'm almost done! "

" The book is something special I give it that. But I think it just got too boring at some parts (when they talk about finances...). When the book got good it got amazing! But the long and boring parts just killed it. "

" Frustrating. Flashes of brilliance, but mainly actions with no consistent motivation. "

" This was a wacky book. I did not really get it. "

" flighty writing, which was probably intentional. failed to make main character sympathetic, or give him any redeeming qualities. which was probably the point. "

" After giving up on Underworld, I found this book manageable. A pity I found it in the "remaindered" heap - it deserved a better airing "

" I did not really like the main character or the style of this book, and only kept reading it because it was short. However, it is a book I can see other people enjoying, it just was not the book for me. "

" Very very odd... but still rather good. "

" More like Delillo Easton Ellis. "

" this book was so weird. exactly what i get for reading a book just because Robert Pattinson is making a movie based on it. "

" Quite interesting story, though very messed up character. Made me wonder if these masters of the universe really lived like that. Seriously, do they? "

" It's not badly written or anything. I just didn't like it. It's not for me. "

" Inevitably, you have to conclude that Cosmopois is no Underworld, but DeLillo's use of language is never disappointing. "

" This book is like a rich chocolate cake. I had to read it slowly so I could enjoy each word--each wonderfully descriptive and intoxicating word. Wordgasm... that's what this book gave me. Totally worth the read! "

" Ugh~this book is hurting my brain at times but it's all in the name of RPattz for me. Thank God it is a short read regarding pages. "