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Oct 02, 2018
Rebecca Manery
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it was amazing
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If you haven't read this book, or haven't read it in a while, now might be the time to try or revisit it. Written in 1984, it feels prophetic; in fact, only the occasional references to obsolete technology remind you that you aren't reading a book written in the post 9/11 era when daily headlines in The New York Times look eerily similar to tabloid headlines. Here's a world where planes fly into the White House, where ecological disaster looms everywhere but everyone pretends not to be concerned
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I’m not sure where to begin with this review. White Noise is one of the most annoying books that I have ever read. I know it is supposed to be some literary masterpiece and a commentary on our times or something like that, but I must have missed all of that. The book pretty much consists of the characters going off on these monologues, or awkward dialogues with each other, about the profundity of the most mundane topics. I’m not sure if it these were supposed to be serious or satirical, but eith
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Dec 30, 2022
Colleen Chi-Girl
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