The Silence
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It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have Don DeLillo's prescience, imagination and language been more illuminating and essential.
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Maybe it was just the audiobook and the way the people read it, but the dialogue was...not great. I don't know if that's just how Don DeLillo writes dialogue, but it was the weakest part of the story and dragged the rest of the story down.
I did like the premise, but was disappointed that it wasn't explored more. It felt like a lot of meat was left on the bone.
In this world of social media and digital everything, what would happen if we lost it all? No phones. No internet. No social updating or browsing. How would people even begin to communicate and interact with each other?
