A satire of modern consumerist society. The book explores the fear of death of people whose lives have descended into shallow meaningless consumerism.It's clever and well written. It's the best of the books that I've read that are satires in the Joseph Heller tradition that target current consumer...
This is my first novel by Don Delillo and my first modern satire. It took me some time to adjust to the writing style and to what the author was trying to accomplish with White Noise. But once I entered the pace and got what the author was trying to do, I loved it. It is surprisingly funny -- lau...
many academicians believe that Don DeLillo's 1984 class White Noise is the book mostly likely to be considered 'great' in a hundred years. unfortunately, of course an academic would believe an academic book is great; a college novel is of course at best a near-great novel, although we can fairly say...
Finally get to finish this book. I caught myself re-reading lines because they had such intelligence. Some lines would leave me thinking with a smile. One I really liked"Is there such a thing as now? Now comes and goes as soon as you say it."I really enjoyed this book great dialogue and likeable c...
Well... little happens, mostly big conversations equivalent to a high school stoner's understanding of philosophy. And as for the style, I'm not really... didn't think it was that great either. I'm glad I read it because it is quite influential, so not a total loss, neither a great read.
I had this babysitter named Bernice who also was the postmistress of our wind swept Kansas town. My mom would drop me off at the post office which I'm pretty sure using the post office as a day care may have been against regulation, but this was small town America. Bernice was ultra-religious and o...
DeLillo satirizes modern-day, upper-bougie American living skillfully and satisfyingly, with extra points for his send-up of academics. I particularly like DeLillo's way of describing people's motions and gestures abstractly, with more focus on the interpretations of the observer than the feelings o...
Another review I just don't know how to write. Another book that engendered some affection, but no passion. I do enjoy academic comedies of manners, and this had that, and I am always amused (although I think I enjoyed Richard Russo's Straight Man more than White Noise.)The dialogue is amusing, and ...
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