Title: White Clutter
Product review: I am beginning to wonder if the babyboomer generation has equated pith and slick irony as intelligence. White Noise is a book austensibly about death, the meaning of life and the frivolousness of consumerism.Mr. DeLillo has created a small world where moderately interesting people take great pains to be clever, bathed in non-sequitors and absorbed in seemingly silly arguments. I will say, however, for every 5 ridiculous conversations played out, there is one that contains the germ of an interesting thought or concept. When Jack and Murray have a discussion about death, rage, meaning and the reaching of conclusions based on honest reflection, the insight and complexity of the books' intent come to the fore.I wish there was more depth, less faux tongue-in-cheek patter in this work.
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