A review by mxpringle
White Noise by Don DeLillo

reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

At first I really loved this book, because the writing style and the concept of the book seemed really unique. I loved the first third of the book, but as the book continued, it just started to feel like the writing style was really hindering it. Despite genuinely having a plot, a lot of it made no logical sense, which was definitely on purpose, but it just made me constantly question what on earth was going on with every page. There was nothing solid that I could "hold on to" while reading. There were no solid settings, solid characters, solid dialogue, everything was just illogical and didn't have much continuity. It kind of felt like when someone is telling you a really dream that they had -- in this case probably a nightmare -- but the dream itself means nothing to you and is so illogical that you can't follow and don't particularly care about the ending. That's what this book felt like, and by the end of it I didn't feel like I knew what I had even read because there was nothing that followed the boundaries of reality. I'm sure that this was partially on purpose, and if that's the case then it really was masterfully done, but it was not really my cup of tea. 
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