false 118008 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351m/118008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351s/118008.jpg 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.]]> 11762 29 327422 book 1984 White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) total:12685|5:3998|4:4674|3:2669|2:974|1:370| 12685 49011 16547 1099 233 3.66 29329 2964 16490069 166376 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.87 10265 1984 1 26 false Tue Feb 26 23:34:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 30 16:24:01 -0700 2008
Updated (i.e. "final") review: March 30th, 2008

So. I had read three quarters of this and decided to chuck it, but last night my compulsive side won over, and I went ahead and finis...more...]]> 7452605 515187 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 21 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 18:04:38 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 22:06:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 6203352 353587 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 4 6 false Fri Sep 14 10:54:29 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 14:13:46 -0700 2007 THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus i...more...]]> 33724229 39797 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 1 9 false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 10:30:43 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 16:43:16 -0700 2008 .67
Fe...more...]]> 19690047 1063991 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 6 false Mon Apr 07 19:45:26 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 08:57:18 -0700 2008
It also contains ...more...]]> 6017533 294816 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 4 false Sat Jul 19 19:50:33 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 10 18:53:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:58:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 21530932 306689 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 2 6 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat May 03 14:01:40 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 11:05:03 -0700 2008 White Noise by Don DeLillo is the literary equivalent of 18 paranoid hours of non-stop channel surfing while chain-smoking and nursing a migraine in a smoggy, over-crowded city. On meth.

Do you want to know why this is one of the most important books of the 20th century? Because...more...]]> 5575247 90618 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 3 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 08:13:42 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 08:54:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 16199963 935176 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 1 4 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Feb 23 16:11:32 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 16:11:32 -0800 2008
I'll come right out a say that I don't like Delillo, and am shocked by people who claim that he is a "good writer." Is being a good author the ...more...]]> 6561876 386029 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 2 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 13:02:57 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 13:30:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 567993 49410 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Apr 04 09:59:14 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 04 10:15:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5453030 332237 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Aug 31 19:12:43 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:10:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46900410 1336049 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 4 1 false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 19 16:17:07 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 12:51:34 -0700 2009 This book amazed me on several levels: philosophically, intellectually, and emotionally. Delillo presents many analyses of modern fear and society (this work holds up remarkably well over time and addresses a very similar social context as our current one). I may...more...]]> 46751664 1232712 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 2 2 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 09:26:29 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 13:01:30 -0700 2009
I really didn't like this book. It annoyed, irr...more...]]> 31887057 1405967 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 4 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 03 01:23:36 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 10:28:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 30395764 963687 923693 0140077022 9780140077025 61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1241389721m/923693.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1241389721s/923693.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/923693.White_Noise 3.75 596
Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladney family -- radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings -- pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.]]> 1984 3 1 false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 14:36:01 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 14:29:18 -0700 2008 this podcast as well as I loved the book itself...


I don't often read other people's reviews of a book after I've already read it myself, but this time was an exception. I feel strangely put-off by the conversation at hand, and my only real thought is that if you ca...more...]]> 30232404 423999 118008 0978014007 113 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351m/118008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351s/118008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118008.White_Noise 3.82 1117 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.]]> 1984 2 1 false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 10:48:12 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 19:20:58 -0700 2008 The Country Wife or The Taming of the Shrew. It's an anatomy in the Northrop Frye sense, where characters announce in dialogue all the clear ideas they're meant to embody. Which of course is classic DeLillo; it's a mistake to write this guy off...more...]]> 21400518 657098 118008 0978014007 113 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351m/118008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351s/118008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118008.White_Noise 3.86 12685 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.]]> 1984 4 1 false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 10:28:48 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 12:56:22 -0700 2008
1: Development: White Noise does not develope linearly, rather it works as a system (every pomo novel does this to a point) the ...more...]]> 6882606 25921 11762 0140283307 9780140283303 828 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11762.White_Noise 3.86 12685 1984 1 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 06:58:40 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 16 10:17:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 591367 32794 118008 0978014007 113 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351m/118008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745351s/118008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118008.White_Noise 3.86 12685 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.]]> 1984 3 1 false Thu Apr 05 14:57:19 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 22 16:41:33 -0700 2007
Let me say that I enjoyed it for the vast majority of the book, and I can't quite tangibly explain what tu...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=118008