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Comment author: satt 07 November 2012 02:45:09AM 0 points [-]

I haven't read White Noise in a long time, but remember loving it.

I read it a year and a half ago though, before I had really been exposed to anything from LessWrong - to my recollection, there is nothing in it that would bother me now, although I'm not entirely certain of that.

D'you mean that the stuff in the novel that's satirized doesn't seem to warrant satirizing? I'd agree that a lot of what the novel mocks or caricatures is basically harmless, although I'd find the clusterfuck around the airborne toxic event outrageous if it happened to me in real life.

As a trigger warning, it also explores violence as a theme and there are a couple of moderately graphic scenes, if I recall correctly.

There's a chapter that describes one character shooting another in some detail. (There might be other graphic scenes I don't recall.)

Comment author: RobertLumley 07 November 2012 03:08:12AM 1 point [-]

D'you mean that the stuff in the novel that's satirized doesn't seem to warrant satirizing? I'd agree that a lot of what the novel mocks or caricatures is basically harmless, although I'd find the clusterfuck around the airborne toxic event outrageous if it happened to me in real life.

I don't mean anything specifically, I'm just not sure there weren't some quotes or themes that would induce major eye rolling now.