White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
 

White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)

by Don DeLillo

Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes... (read more)

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Tinky
  • Rated 4 stars

Absolutely wonderful satire of American slouching toward the millennium. Funny, scary, and unforgettable. I see a strong connection between this book and George W. S. Trow's famous essay "Within the Context of No Context" and I wonder if it was an influence on DeLillo.

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Mallory
  • Rated 2 stars

I read this my Junior year for AP Language, and it was, by a landslide, my least favorite book we read. I don't care for DeLillo's writing style, and the plot kind of sucked.

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  • Mark in Doha

    mark in doha said:

    I enjoyed this a long time ago and remember it as a darkly humoroous satirical 'academia' novel like David Lodge writes .

    Anyway I'd definitely read it again as I thought Libra was very good, and probably the unacknowledged source of JFK the movie by Oliver Stone.

    posted Saturday, July 5 2008
  • Fu Manchu

    fu manchu said:

    DeLillo making too little noise with this book Fu Manchu know pretentious drivel when he step in it

    posted Saturday, July 5 2008
  • srapri

    srapri said:

    haven't finished the book as yet, but love the humor. its not in your face, seems to exist at some subterranean level and builds up through the book. any other books by de lillo that people here recommend?

    posted Thursday, June 19 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • Book Addict

    book addict said:

    I am looking to join a live in-person book club in Manhattan that discusses Delillo and other postmodern fiction authors. Does anyone know of one?

    posted Wednesday, March 12 2008
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton said:

    Yes, Jack Gladney is certainly certifiable!

    posted Tuesday, July 10 2007
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