Literalizing metaphor gimmick still one of the goats. I probably don't have anything to say about this book that hasn't been said already, but I was impressed by Dellilo's ability to skate a lot of fine lines with regards to irony, voice etc. Achieves the DFW-ish effect where the bedroom philosophizing of upper-middle class Americans is shown to be as equally vapid as its plausible truth.