"White Noise" and "The Names" are still some of my favorite books and I didn't like this one as much....maybe I'm being harsh and this should be 4 stars.

It's clear DeLillo is getting older, as his characters muse more on sadness, death, confusion. The language is beautiful. The conversations are...weird? There were quite a few sections where as I was reading, I was thinking, "These people are horrible," because of their abstractness and separation from the world. But on the other hand, they had reasons for trying to separate themselves from our current time, hopeful that in the unknown future, things would be better. So it's a weird mixture of their being incredibly tied-in and frustrated and also living on a different plane than the people in their weird videos (for example).

Lots of questions and ideas to think about.