Although I wasn’t thoroughly enamored
with the book reviewed today, it did present a reasonably believable future in
which we are all completely reliant on our smart phones. Since I start to feel very nervous when mine
has been forgotten somewhere, I am not sure we are too far off this
reality.
Currently Reading:
-
Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones (received through Goodreads)
- The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (received through NetGalley)
-
We Were Liars by e. lockhart (received through the publisher)
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- From Souk to Souk: Travels through the Middle East by Robin Ratchford (received through NetGalley)
- Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout (received through NetGalley)
Recent Reviews:
The
Word Exchange by Alena
Graedon (received through NetGalley)
3 Stars
In the near future, glorified smart
phones, called Memes have taken over our lives.
The Memes are able to foresee our wants and needs in advance and perform
such tasks as paying bills, calling cabs, and defining words
automatically. As the technology
advances, a contagious “word flu” takes over the United States as people become
so dependent on their gadget that they are unable to speak. Two narrators, Anana and Bart, tell this
somewhat confusing apocalyptic tale as they try to fight against losing their
words and find Anana’s missing father. I
thought this novel had an interesting premise and I could see it as somewhat
cautionary tale (I WAS reading it on my Kindle and used the installed
dictionary several times to look up unknown words), however I found it really
boring at times and had to force myself to keep reading. The narrators had a tendency to get way off
topic and would skip around in time so that I never really knew what was
happening in the present and what had already occurred. I enjoyed the cleverness of the novel, but I
just wish it had been more enjoyable to read.
I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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