Een in orde rant over het huidige internet, vormgegeven door puber met hoodies om geld te verdienen aan de zogeheten onbeperkte vrijheid van meningsuiting. De auteur legt de vinger op een gapende wonde.

Black humour that cuts deep. Made me want to hate-tweet about it.

This book is written a very different format/structure - more like an explanation of events, making it a kind of non-novel. I thought I would get tired of it quickly but I actually enjoyed it; this book was pretty funny even thought it touched on real and sensitive topics.
If you're a user of social media and want to know more about how it's affecting the world and the people in it, definitely read this book.
Here are some enjoyable quotes:

"Billionaires were always giving advice to people who weren’t billionaires about how to become billionaires. It was almost always intolerable bullshit."

"Lady Gaga just walked around. She was shitting gold and pissing honey and she wanted to be part of the Art World."

And to summarise the whole book and the world of today - "Nothing says individuality like 500 million consumer electronics built by slaves. Welcome to Hell."

This books is spot-on and hilarious! A must read for anyone with an internet connection.

Reading this book and recent ones by Naomi Klein and Douglass Rushkoff makes me worry if I am a "low level cog in the tech industry" happily perpetuating a system of oppression and exploitation in return for a "soon-to-be-dismantled middle class life". On the other hand, I am happy that I can pay my bills.

I seriously could not finish this. This book has so many raving reviews. So, maybe I did not get the irony, but not only did I find it pretty unreadable but also quite pretentious.

This is it. This is the darkness laid bare, this is the evisceration of our rotten-boweled reality. Rage, yes, righteous rage but *funny*. If you're going to be filled with righteous rage, you might as well be funny too.

Kobek wrote the brilliant book [b:Atta|12005936|Atta (Intervention #9)|Jarett Kobek|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1444230617s/12005936.jpg|16970592] a few years back. Powerful, brilliant work. Hard to shake. This is better. I'm so honored and glad to have found this book. It feels like freedom, and if it's the freedom of death, of finding out that, yes, we're all already dead, well, that's a freedom of a sort.

Absolutely brilliant, and an instant classic. I just pray, dream, hope that maybe it will someday not apply to our reality. But it's a longshot.

Jarrett Kobek, it's a home run. (A home run is a particular outcome of an "at bat" in the sport called baseball. Sports are a system that provide an illusion of meaning...) I salute you.

I want to post excerpts. But it's all gold. The excerpt is the whole book. Go read the whole book. I just had the typo "go dread the whole book". That applies too. Go. Do it.