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Originally Posted by Iain

Don DeLillio is probably pretty overrated. I've only read White Noise to be honest but it was only OK at best and aggravating at times.

white noise for me was a great book for me, but maybe it's very rooted in the time when it was published (80s?). so some of the things that appeared perhaps "new" or "strange" in the 80's, like the family's shopphing addiction (i saw it that way, dont know about you) , are nothing but commonplace these days. and reading about a professor of hitler studies who can't read german, well, that was just too much fun for me. but the book was a wonderful hallucination for me, coming from another country which is a little behind in history, and where life is more "backwards"--so this book made quite an impression. i think the story & the characters & the situations are wonderfully composed. but again perhaps the elements of it have aged quite fast since 198...something when it was written.