A review by lintulai
In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by George Prochnik

2.0

First of all: listening to a book about pursuing silence as an audiobook in my noisy car contradicts the purpose of a book about silence. Apart from that, I don't think the author reached his explicit purpose of finding a "meaning in a world of noise". There were interesting excursions to different areas of noise/sound/silence, and a somewhat surprising chapter about the deaf world, which wasn't made relevant - I find it hard to imagine that a seeing person would write about darkness and lack of sunlight and interview a blind person about the subject. Maybe that's just me being weird, but silence as lack of noise and silence as a result of being deaf seem to be very different things and not sides of the same coin.