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Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


Besson posted:

The cool thing about Delillo is that if you like his narration you are in for a treat because all of his characters sound like the narrator! Because of this, all the characters lack any sort of presence and all feel the same. This isn't helped by the long back and forths that happen frequently where everyone is on the exact same page on a philosophical/social idea. These can be mistaken for narratorial digression if it weren't for the quotations marks bookending the block of text.

Also every point he tries to make in White Noise is boring and overwrought.

Some of the prose in White Noise is dreadful as well. The ending is particularly bad.:


gently caress you idiot.

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Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


Tfw trying to read Umberto Eco but I know nothing about ecclesiology

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