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White Noise
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bookshelves: _library, read-2016, 1001-books, award-national-book-award, favorites, read-2018, read-it-again
Dec 31, 2015
bookshelves: _library, read-2016, 1001-books, award-national-book-award, favorites, read-2018, read-it-again
Read 2 times. Last read March 18, 2018 to March 25, 2018.
March, 2018:
On a second read, I think I got another 2-3% of it than last time. I adore this book.
January, 2016:
I really enjoyed this, but I don't completely understand it yet. I've got about 95% of it, but that last 5% I think may only come after some rereading, and maybe 20 additional years of life experience. It feels like a book you could read several times over a life and always find a different meaning. Heavily metaphorical, very philosophical, clever. Death, consumerism, fear, modern life, existentialism, nihilism, etc.
On a second read, I think I got another 2-3% of it than last time. I adore this book.
January, 2016:
I really enjoyed this, but I don't completely understand it yet. I've got about 95% of it, but that last 5% I think may only come after some rereading, and maybe 20 additional years of life experience. It feels like a book you could read several times over a life and always find a different meaning. Heavily metaphorical, very philosophical, clever. Death, consumerism, fear, modern life, existentialism, nihilism, etc.
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Reading Progress
December 31, 2015
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January 28, 2016
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Started Reading
January 30, 2016
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62.58%
"I get the title now, it's cooler than I was initially thinking."
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204
January 31, 2016
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Finished Reading
March 18, 2018
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Started Reading
March 25, 2018
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Finished Reading
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Feb 11, 2018 08:01AM
I don't think anyone can understand Delillo 100%. But this is definitely a classic of postmodern satire. I think Wallace was taking notes from this before writing Infinite Jest.
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John wrote: "I don't think anyone can understand Delillo 100%. But this is definitely a classic of postmodern satire. I think Wallace was taking notes from this before writing Infinite Jest."That sounds right to me. I know that Wallace and DeLillo wrote to each often. I think that DeLillo even spoke at his funeral, if I remember correctly.
