White Noise

We were supposed to have read White Noise by Don DeLillo last week. Naturally, I just got around to it today-ish. I feel like anybody who has ever been mystified or interested in the strange ways of this post-modern era we live in should read this book. The fourteen year old, Heinrich, is a cynical idealist who attempts to debase anything that could be shown as real just because he can. It's awesome. Murray, a university professor who is gearing up to teach a course on car crash movies, spends his time wandering around and studying modern culture like an anthropologist - watching TV to decipher some sort of code, questioning children to try and figure out how they think - asking to proform the heinlich maneover on a prostitute....

In short, this book is awesome. I recommend it.