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White Noise
White Noise
White Noise
Audiobook12 hours

White Noise

Written by Don DeLillo

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Now a Netflix film!

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an “airborne toxic event,” a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladneys—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 19, 2016
ISBN9781508222712
White Noise
Author

Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book. Many funny moments. Bizarre twists. I have read four of Don DeLillo’s books, and this one is my favorite(that is if listening to audio books counts as reading).

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you are afraid of death read this book!

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The manias of late Cold War American culture crowd through this narrative. Hyper-consumerism, the dread of mortality, a feeling that life is ever cluttering to some overwhelming point of no return where families, friendships, and communities are shattered and swallowed whole by the sheer amount of stuff, and junk, and white noise. DeLillo populated this story with the excesses of American life only in words rather than with objects. Ultimately, the price of such excess is the greatest of them all. Everything we consume at our fancy or for our distraction, or simply purchase and forget about, creates a shadow army of demons that follow us at every move, dropping poison into our water and spewing pollutants into our air. If culture is consumed by capitalism, capitalism does not cease at consuming culture, it culminates in individual, social, and environmental cataclysm. In the face of slow-burning ecological and social disaster, the residents of Blacksmith find solace and tranquility gazing from the overpass at the setting sun—the sky beautified by airborne pollution. Like the townspeople finding the sublime in their own destruction, we the readers savor DeLillo for painting in prose an image of our death.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    More a long philosophical monologue than a novel, DeLillo weaves his tale of a Professor of Hitler Studies around reflections on the meaning of life and death.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    BORING… so BORING

    Wanted to listen to the book before watching the Adam Driver movie , but this was sooooooo painfully pointless
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I found this Deeply humorous and profound, the narrator‘a deadpan voice adds to the text and though I wasn’t sure at first, his voice fits the text perfectly.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    What was that. Cannot get those hours back in my life.