Status Updates From Mao II

The only knock I can formulate against this book is that I wanted to spend more time with the characters. Hard to think of another book I've read recently that had me hanging on every last word, the personages swirling around my head like flesh-and-blood apparitions.

I dearly hope this is not another case of DeLilo's novels peaking very early a la Underworld because man, these first 60-some pages are the most compelling thing I've read in a minute.