Back in December last year, I decided to get White Noise by Don DeLillo done and over with as it has been on my to be read pile even before the pandemic began. Because of the holiday distractions that came along with that time of the year, I plowed through it at a glacial pace. I somehow neglected the book altogether as the plot picked up with the black cloud just about to threaten the lives of Jack Gladney, his family and the rest of the college town.
An unfinished book bothers me so here I am, more than half a year later, attempting to read it again. And it's only recently that I learned that the novel has been adapted into a film. Yeah, how can I miss news about it? Directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle, the film adaptation of White Noise is available to view over at Netflix. Nothing motivates me more to finish a book than a film adaptation already waiting at the sidelines.
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White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an “airborne toxic event,” a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladneys—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.
