White Noise

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.” 

"The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe."

"How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed."

This is the second novel by Don Delillo that I have read.  I found that I enjoyed it a lot more than the first, Falling Man.  But, interestingly, reading this booked helped me to appreciate Delillo's style more and I retrospectively adjusted my assessment of Falling Man and added an extra star to my rating of it.

White Noise is a wonderful book choc full of themes and interesting images.  The dialogue is fantastic.  Some of the interchanges between Jack and Babette are both fascinating and funny. 

I enjoyed being caught up in Jack's head as he worried his way through the novel and found the progression to absurdity to be believable and enjoyable.