Overall, great capture of the creation of internet culture, the pathway to radicalization and just the way that society is failing great swaths of people across the board. The only whacky bits are the "divisions of Antifa" and "members of Antifa" shouts that I kept seeing when those aren't even really groups (more on that in "Culture Warlords" by Talia Lavin). That's such a small sticking point that I can't really give too much heat to the overall book however. Great content, fun read, worth the while.
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garrett rated Ubik (Spanish Edition): 5 stars
Ubik (Spanish Edition) by Philip K. Dick
Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer …
garrett rated The Queen's gambit: 4 stars
The Queen's gambit by Walter Tevis
Beth Harmon, an orphan by eight years old, is unremarkable. She is plain and she knows it. In the Kentucky …
garrett rated The Chaos Machine: 5 stars
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York …
garrett rated Survival of the Richest: 4 stars
Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub
The tech elite have a …
garrett rated Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: 4 stars
garrett rated Life Ceremony: 4 stars
Life Ceremony by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Sayaka Murata
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated …
garrett rated Get It Done: 4 stars
garrett rated Ways of Being: 5 stars
garrett rated Night Film: 4 stars
Marisha Pessl: Night Film (2014)
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
"Ashley Cordova, the mysterious gifted daughter of the reclusive film director Stanislas Cordova, is found dead in an abandoned warehouse …
garrett rated Bliss Montage: 5 stars
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our …
garrett rated Cloud Atlas: 4 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. Published in 2004, it won the British Book Awards …
garrett reviewed It Came from Something Awful by Dale Beran
Review of 'It Came from Something Awful' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Overall, great capture of the creation of internet culture, the pathway to radicalization and just the way that society is failing great swaths of people across the board. The only whacky bits are the "divisions of Antifa" and "members of Antifa" shouts that I kept seeing when those aren't even really groups (more on that in "Culture Warlords" by Talia Lavin). That's such a small sticking point that I can't really give too much heat to the overall book however. Great content, fun read, worth the while.