White Noise
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Amazon.com Review
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 fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.
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 fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.
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Adding to Trekwoman's "Every One's a (Prize) Winner!" bookbox. This book is a National Book Award winner.
Adding to Trekwoman's "Every One's a (Prize) Winner!" bookbox. This book is a National Book Award winner.
Journal Entry 3 by trekwoman from -- Somewhere In The State --, California USA on Wednesday, August 5, 2009
DeLillo is a terrific author. I've heard of this and haven't yet read it, so was pleased to see it in the box. After I finish, I may send it to a friend in Massachusetts (also a Bookcrosser). Thank you.
Journal Entry 4 by trekwoman from -- Somewhere In The State --, California USA on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Okay. At first I enjoyed reading the description and narration by Jack. The town, the college, the visiting parents, his co-workers.. all sounded typically familiar .. and then came the exchange in the car with his fourteen year old son. I don't know what possesses writers to grace some teenage characters with the world weary vocabulary of a burnt out forty-something or worse, one of those disturbingly precoccious little teenage know it alls from Dawson's Creek.. but there he was, and he was ticking me off.
BAH!
Another BC-er on the forum is looking for this book, so I will mail this to him/her.
BAH!
Another BC-er on the forum is looking for this book, so I will mail this to him/her.
Journal Entry 5 by trekwoman at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, August 24, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (8/26/2009 UTC) at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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For.. I forget their screen name right now, but the person whose ex boyfriend nicked off with her books.
For.. I forget their screen name right now, but the person whose ex boyfriend nicked off with her books.
Received in the mail from a fellow bookcrosser- thanks for your kindness!
Almost 10 years since I registered this book and I have access to this account again!
I it’s also been a few years since I’ve read this book so I’m a little fuzzy on what to say about it, but I did greatly enjoy reading it at the time.
I lent/ended up trading it to a boy in Los Angeles, lets see if it shows up!
I it’s also been a few years since I’ve read this book so I’m a little fuzzy on what to say about it, but I did greatly enjoy reading it at the time.
I lent/ended up trading it to a boy in Los Angeles, lets see if it shows up!
