One star deserves a comment or two. Underworld and White Noise were both reasonably entertaining if in the former's case slightly ultimately underwhelming. This is De Lillo first book and I'm surprised that it was published and that he got a book deal. There are some entertaining passages but sadly very few. The main character is self absorbed unpleasant and obnoxious but that doesn't mean much after all there are plenty of excellent books with vile lead characters. The problem for me is that there are long tedious passages of little interest and no relevance. This novel is filled with unnecessary, pretentious passages of pure drivel. I was so glad to get to the end and by then I'd ceased caring about any of the characters or plot. The one good thing is that this was a purchase from a charity shop where I will gladly return this awful piece of writing.