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Feb 07, 2017hadley rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
DeLillo's latest came highly recommended by some people I trust, and I enjoyed most of his 1997 novel Underworld, so I was eager to dip into it. Despite its relatively short length, I found it wavered between dull and actively aggravating, and was a chore to finish. No humans have ever had conversations like the ones that take place in Zero K. The moral questions the book raises—If technology lets us live to be 500, do we want to? Who gets to live and who doesn't? And what if the planet is a giant dumpster fire when the technology promised by cryogenics allows us to return to life?—could be interesting, but they're not in this book.