Response to White Noise

Sunset from the Brooklyn Bridge

Wow, Amazing, Abstract, Weird, Strange, Odd, Perverse, Thought Provoking, Colorful, Perplexing, Bazaar, Befuddle, Frustrating, Calculating, Demonstrative, Self-indulgent, Ineptness, Confusing, Scattered; any one or all of these plus many more descriptive words could be used in the analytical process of reviewing Don DeLillo's WhiteNoise.  I found it to be a little twisted and difficult to follow at times; thereby by making it a ‘hard read’ for me.  I also found it to be interesting; although it is not the type of book that I would normally read just for the sake of reading, I found it difficult to put down – I wanted to keep on reading.  I wanted to figure out why Heinrich was so odd – I have worked in Public and Charter schools for a number of years and have never met such a strange teenage boy as Heinrich.  I cannot for the life of me figure out why Murray would want to buy all of his stuff in the white label generic aisle at the store – it has been my experience in trying to save a penny or two that those white labeled items are absolutely tasteless – after having sampled it once why on earth would a person want to go back for more? Of course once I finished the book, those and all my other questions were left unanswered – for now.  But I kept on reading nonetheless.  Now of course comes the research of attempting to find the answers to at least some of my questions.