the detail of this Novel

I am thoroughly impressed with Libra. It boggles my mind as to how much raw research must have gone into the writing of this book. DeLillo seems to have included EVERYTHING that we possibly know to be a fact about the assassination and the characters in this novel, as well as his own more post-modernist viewpoints and bending of what is known to make this book truly historical fiction. I cannot comprehend how much work must have gone into writing this novel. I used to have a fear for post-modernism which was that the idea that fiction and history are intertwined and closer to each other than we expect would be used as a cop-out to just make up whatever you want and claim post-modernism. But DeLillo has completely smashed this possibility. He has done as much work as a very good historian would have done to research and put together facts, but above and beyond that, he has created his own creative story as to what actually happened in a historical event that has no easy answers. So overall, I am very impressed with DeLillo. I am however a little disappointed in my enjoyment of this novel. I am having a hard time paying attention to what I am reading and understand what I am reading. The sheer amount of information that DeLillo provides the reader with is a little overwhelming to me. Other books such as slaughterhouse-five and Ragtime were much easier for me to understand and enjoy because of how they were written. But it almost feels as though Libra was written too densely; as if too much information is given to the reader. I am of course disappointed that I am not enjoying this book so much but once again in awe of the work that was surely put into it.