# White Noise (book and movie)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [May 13, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-noise-book-and-movie/984001 "2023-05-13T21:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-noise-book-and-movie/984001/1 "2023-05-13T21:18:41Z")

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I just finished reading “White Noise”, the Don DiLillo book from 1985 that was recently made into a movie. I had not heard of the book until a few years ago, and haven’t seen the movie yet.

Wow, what a trip! Some cultural references do date it, but other things in it certainly applied to modern times, and incredibly, the book had no profanity in it. I had heard that the book was considered unfilmable, and if IMDB is to be taken seriously, that’s probably true, but I’m at least going to attempt it.