White Noise

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• Don DeLillo: White Noise

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  theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  I expected better

  Either DeLillo played me perfectly, or this book should have been shorter. I understand the main point of the book (society is just "white noise" designed to hide our fear of death), and I understand that this has to be reflected in the language, but it seems to push the reader down too many rivers ... (continue)

  Either DeLillo played me perfectly, or this book should have been shorter. I understand the main point of the book (society is just "white noise" designed to hide our fear of death), and I understand that this has to be reflected in the language, but it seems to push the reader down too many rivers of thought, too many pointless diatribes, dragging on for a good hundred-pages more than strictly required. This said, I'll have to re-read it sooner or later, because it's a powerful and deep work, one to thoroughly mine for ideas and to carefully analyse for its style... maybe not THE Great American Novel, but probably in the top league.

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  I didn't understand what it is meant about "death" discussions

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• English Books
• Paperback 310 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0140283307
• ISBN-13: 9780140283303
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Pub date: Jun 01, 1999
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
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