So this is the first DeLilo I've read. It is beautifully written, and it was strange to read this in the mid of lockdown. The book details a family dealing with a toxic spill in their city. The father is a professor of Hitler studies, the mother has multiple jobs. The kids are all different...
I am not sure what I was expecting from this one since I had never heard of Don DeLillo prior to seeing my friend Edward’s review. I didn’t read the synopsis and didn’t look at any spoilery reviews, but pictured it to be something else entirely. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it ev...
I don't know why but I just can't get this book finished. I've tried several times, and even buckled down and tried the audiobook (which went better), but I get 20-25% of the way through and just lose interest in the characters. The MC/Narrator in particular is just so ridiculously smug about everyt...
I thought that I will not like this novel. I thought that all the fuss about it was exaggerated. I was wrong. I enjoyed this novel a lot. I laughed a lot while reading it. I liked the irony, the sarcasm, the tragic-attractive moods. I liked the contradictions and the writing style. In short I liked ...
I read "White Noise" by Don DeLillo for my book group. I tried to read "Underworld", around the time it came out, and chose to abandon it. I know five other readers who had the same experience with "Underworld". I was therefore relieved to discover that "White Noise" is a more accessible, amusing an...
I don't know, man. DeLillo might be my new favorite author. There was something really poignant in "White Noise"; something constantly expressed and yet glossed over at the same time. DeLillo's novel is a commentary on our waves and radiation in life: how we never have true silence, we are consta...
Oh hey, it's another entry into the pantheon of clever, self-conscious books by middle-aged white guys. How's this one, you ask? Full of existential angst, thanks for asking - but leavened with witty word play! Oh, you say, so...just like the other ones? Well, yes, pretty much.Man, I'll tell you. Mi...
Nutshell: Nazi nostaligist post-ironically exposed to death-gas and very rationally thereafter obsesses his alleged sexual property claim to his wife’s genitals.Opens with reference to Jameson’s arguments in [b:Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism|204011|Postmodernism, or, The Cul...
Interesting commentary about American society in the 1980's. Definitely had its funny points, but this was one of those rare cases where the audio version detracted from the book. Michael Prichard's deadpan narration made this a tough one to recommend.
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