brendamn's reviews
363 reviews

Kobek does make a number of good observations in this book, but has a lot of garbage ones as well. Apparently anyone who argues for improving society is a complete hypocrite just because they participate in society. Primarily social media, I mean yeah social media is shit but that doesn't automatically invalidate everything shared online in the process.

At one point he goes on at some length characterizing tech executives as Greek and Roman gods and goddesses which was one of the more painful parts in the book. Even if he was doing so under many layers of irony it still felt like an embarrassing to go into let alone day dream about.

He goes way out of his way to find reasons to completely discredit everything, if anything has any negative impact or roots then the baby gets automatically thrown out with the bath water. If anything is impure or imperfect then it is completely awful by default. If that was not his intention though then there was no attempt to show otherwise. Go ahead and hate everything though if hating everything is what is the cool thing to do for you.

Again, he does make worthwhile observations and that gives it worth a read I guess. Don't think he is as funny as he thinks he is, and if he doesn't think he is funny he still made quite the effort.

In regards to class struggle, this book will be eternally topical. Exemplifies it expertly yet simply.

I absolutely love John Steinbeck's writing style, when he describes a character I immediately picture what they would look like in full detail. The scenes he paints are vivid. These are qualities I often find lacking in most of the more current books I have read so I am always thankful for that with Steinbeck. Really though I probably just need to pick better books to read.

What a way to end a book though. If someone told me beforehand there is no way I would have thought them serious. Won't be forgetting that, I guess.

Pretty cliché and pretty cheesy but entertaining enough.

Seems you can always expect and enjoyable read with any Pratchett book you choose. A sense of humor uniquely his own mixed in with a healthy dose of thoughtful social commentary.

I was expecting to enjoy this book a lot more than I actually did. I think the characters killed it for me mostly, I just did not find them well written. Charlie Gordon's disability felt very poorly portrayed as well, like it was a caricature of how it ought to have been.

Cool premise, sad ending, overall disappointing.