Started 4/15/06
Finished: 4/17/06
Pages: 310
Year: 1985
Genre: Literature
Grade: C
Reason for reading: booksfree.com book
Blurb (from jacket): " A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys-the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constiture the music of American magic and dread."
Opinion: I'm not a fan of satires and I'm not even sure why I chose this book on booksfree. This book jumped around a lot and didn't make a lot of sense overall. The white noise that the Gladneys, along with the rest of the world, especially America, is constantly brought up in the writing and makes sense in looking at the first line of the jacket.
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