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A review by teohlb
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
3.0
As a cynical and searing takedown of the internet, the people who built it and so much of the culture around it that many of us have been born into, this is a hilarious 5 star book.
There were so many times when this book made references to things I wasn’t expecting and took them down and I loved every second of it. Those things include: comic books, Lady Gaga, Disney, cosplay, LOTR, gentrification, George Bush, twinks, Doctor Who fans, Apple, Miley Cyrus, Star Wars, Jonathan Franzen, BuzzFeed, Cory Doctorow, elite universities, Edward Snowden, the CIA, Jimmy Saville, and much much more. No target too big or too small, and often, what he was saying is right.
So there were plenty times I stopped and laughed and had a good ole time.
However, there’s no real plot here and no real point. Well, I guess the point is to leave us feeling ultra aware of our own hypocrisies and left with a loathing for the internet. So, it does achieve that, and makes that point well.
But ykno, the characters are all quite self-serving, and nothing in particular happens to them, and nothing is really resolved in the end.
There were so many times when this book made references to things I wasn’t expecting and took them down and I loved every second of it. Those things include: comic books, Lady Gaga, Disney, cosplay, LOTR, gentrification, George Bush, twinks, Doctor Who fans, Apple, Miley Cyrus, Star Wars, Jonathan Franzen, BuzzFeed, Cory Doctorow, elite universities, Edward Snowden, the CIA, Jimmy Saville, and much much more. No target too big or too small, and often, what he was saying is right.
So there were plenty times I stopped and laughed and had a good ole time.
However, there’s no real plot here and no real point. Well, I guess the point is to leave us feeling ultra aware of our own hypocrisies and left with a loathing for the internet. So, it does achieve that, and makes that point well.
But ykno, the characters are all quite self-serving, and nothing in particular happens to them, and nothing is really resolved in the end.