I Hate the Internet
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0996421807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As billions of tweets fuel the city's gentrification and the human wreckage piles up, a group of friends suffers the consequences of being useless in a new world that despises the pointless and unprofitable. In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment. Why do we applaud the enrichment of CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves? Here, at last, comes an explanation of the Internet in the crudest possible terms.. What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women?Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims o
-- Jonathan Lethem, The ScofieldThis is a relentless, cruel, hilariously inflamed satire of a loop of economic mystification and the reemergence of the credibility of the notion of Original Sin in the technological utopia of the present-day Bay Area and the world being remade in its image. -Fiona Helmsley, Vol 1 Brooklyn. -Greil Marcus, PitchforkI Hate the Internet may have answered one very important question for me: why I often feel so sick after I've logged in. Could we have an American Houellebecq? Jarett Kobek might come close, in the fervor of his assault on sacred cows of our own secretly-Victorian era, even if some of his implicit politics may be the exact reverse of the Frenchman's. I just got an early copy of his newest, I Hate The Internet and devoured it - he's as riotous as Houellebecq, and you don't need a translator, only fireproof gloves for
"A Novel for Those Who Don't Like Novels" according to Jacque Nodell. Not only is I HATE THE INTERNET a perfectly paced read, Kobek has succeeded in making an almost intolerable lead character completely likable. The book and the awareness it riles up might anger you at times but you’ll be glad you read it. Decades from now historians will look at I HATE THE INTERNET as a revealing text of 21st Century life and how the internet impacted/ruined everything.. This book sucks! I gave up on this book after about This book sucks! R. Cooley I gave up on this book after about 40 pages. It felt like the book was going nowhere and if I had to read how much eumelanin in the basale strata of ones epidermis one more time I was going to throw my Kindle against a wall. This book is incredibly boring and pointless. As a tech person who has been in the industry more than 20 years I really wanted to like this book but good god it is bad. The writer goes off on tangents that add nothing to the story, then makes his point. If he just made his poi. 0 pages. It felt like the book was going nowhere and if I had to read how much eumelanin in the basale strata of ones epidermis one more time I was going to throw my Kindle against a wall. This book is incredibly boring and pointless. As a tech person who has been in the industry more than 20 years I really wanted to like this book but good god it is bad. The writer goes off on tangents that add nothing to the story, then makes his point. If he just made his poi. It's a great satire of SF and brings up some good points Toby What's up with this book? It didn't have a plot and then tried to blame the CIA for fabricating the modern novel to defeat communism. So weird. It's a great satire of SF and brings up some good points but it's the most unstructured book I've read since Faulkner