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Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
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From: Reg
Category: Books
Date: 03 November 2004

Review

DeLillo, or Don, is not a bad writer. He describes, very neatly, details of a child’s behaviour, and discussions between lecturer’s at lunch together. I like this kind of observation. The book is not gripping and the characters are not interesting enough to evoke much reader curiosity, this is because the hang –up with which the narrator is possessed is not convincing. ‘Fear of death’ is ultimately the theme of the book, but DeLillo fails to describe this fear because, I fear, he does not really feel it and can not imagine it the way he would like his character to be possessed by it. My message is don’t describe what you don’t know unless you have a very good imagination.

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