I enjoyed DeLillo's biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, but not as much as his other novels. I'm too young to really care much about the circumstances surrounding John Kennedy's assassination, so as ahistory this did not interest me greatly. Conspiracy theories have never been my bag, so DeLillo's version is as good as any other in my opinion (and reading a well-written book is much more interesting than watching an Oliver Stone movie). Libra is definitely a novel: many of the important characters behind the assassination plot are invented, though it is hard to see where the historical record endsandDeLillo's imagination begins. As with DeLillo's other novels (so far I've read White Noise and Great Jones Street), the writing is uniformly strong and accessible and the dialogue sparkles.