At the B&N Reads blog Brian Boone tagged
twenty of the "books you’ll need to best understand, appreciate, and enhance the college-going experience," including:
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo’s classic novel is told through the eyes of a contented professor and patriarch of a large, blended, technology-addicted family who leads a small northeastern college’s Hitler Studies program. While the themes of the novel deal with the omnipresence of chemicals in our food, air, and bodies, DeLillo also nails the day-to-day of college life, as well as how it feels to live in a university town, particularly how it’s both charmingly unchanging and always exciting due to the constant influx and outflux of new students and teachers.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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