I am a fan of Don DeLillo, but I was not a fan of this work. Based on the concept of something or other happening during the Superbowl that causes all the electronics to stop working, I expected a lot more. The characters had aspects that were interesting but nothing felt fleshed out. Everything seemed vague and the characters almost acted like someone else's parody of DeLillo characters-- the absent minded technology obsessed husband, the strange affair seeking wife and her age-gap dynamic with her precocious spacey student. The babbling that seemed to spread from one character to another. The writer in the work of various ethnic backgrounds and her fact-obssessed husband. They seemed like character traits of other DeLillo characters I've read previously mixed up and given new paint. Random sex scenes. Vague paranoia. There were ingredients to something interesting but in my opinion this did not deliver. It was a quick read, but it was oddly boring. I love Libra, Underworld and White Noise, so I was unpleasantly surprised by this novel. It did not go anywhere particularly interesting with its premise. Things start and then just end without climax or conclusion.