White Noise by Don Delillo

I was perhaps too amped up by the "Best book of the 20th Century" hype. Delillo is at his best satirizing academia, at his worst when the "Airborne Toxic Event" takes over the plot. The very best passage, and one of the briefest, occurs near the end of the novel with the Hitler conference. If Delillo had focused his sights more narrowly on academia, this might truly have been one of the best books of the century. As it is, it is nevertheless a worthwhile meditation on the "postmodern condition."