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12691747 No.12691747 [Reply] [Original]

Well that was shit

>> No.12691781

fuck you. The Airborne Toxic Event borders on perfection.

>> No.12691789

It is a truly terrible book. Easily the worst thing I’ve ever actually read cover to cover

>> No.12691795

don delilo was a nazi and an antisemite

>> No.12691802

>>12691747
I was once of the same mind, mostly because I went into White Noise with a more sedated and over-serious expectation like I would with his other novels. In reality it's a book better enjoyed if you let it entertain you, for its prescient social observations if not for its quirky humor.

- t. Don DeLillo

>> No.12691840

>Dialogue is awful
>THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA
>edgy know-it-all Heinrich
>ennui is one of the worst topics to write about unless you go crazy with it (which Dellilo doesn’t),
>cuckhold subplot goes absolutely nowhere
>atheist nuns lmao
Yeah not my favorite. I have heard that other Dellilo stuff is good but never great.

>>12691781
That part was good; the best part of the novel