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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
This book was so, so good in that it so seamlessly integrated the new tech world - and its personalities and characters - with the traditional industries that have been so carefully developed. As someone who walks the fine line between "millennial" and having remembered a life before the Internet, I loved it. A fun, escapist read. If this was a movie, I would expect Robin Wright to play Imogen Tate.
Cute play on the movie and play *all about eve* but for the new generation. Light and fluffy and I guessed every turn. Bette Davis did it better
3.5 stars. It started off pretty boring, but picked up. At first the story felt very anti-millennial and anti-technology, but as the main character, Imogen grew and learned to accept and incorporate technology into her own life, the book came to a fairly nice compromise of old and new. I didn't like the flatness of Eve's character though, and I'd have liked some better resolution. She crossed a lot of lines and did some horrible things, but she was also clearly dealing with some serious mental health issues, and instead of addressing that, or Imogene reaching out to her, she just leaves Glossy for Silicon Valley. The other characters though were fun and interesting.
"Aku hanya mengatakan ini satu kali, dan setelah mengatakannya, aku tidak ingin melihatmu lagi selamanya. Kau bukan siapa-siapa selain perundung menjijikkan yang iri hati. Aku tahu kau Candy Cool, Eve. Aku tahy kau yang selama ini memperlakukan putriku dengan kejam. Kau sakit jiwa, kau jalang berhati iblis, dan aku tidak tahu apakah kau akan sembuh. Kurasa kau sudah lama menjual jiwamu. Karena itu alasan kau bersedia berjalan ke altar pernikahan untuk menikah dengan pria yang tidak kaucintai. Aku tahu kau kembali ke Glossy untuk merebut pekerjaanku, bukan untuk bekerja bersamaku. Sayang, kau bukan apa-apa selain editor palsu murah." (p.495)
Renyah, mengalir, lucu, dan kadang geregetan.
Novel ini saya temukan di iPusnas, random aja dipilih karena ada tulisan 'untuk yang rindu The Devil Wear Prada yang pertama saya tonton waktu SD.
Ini tentang Imogen Tate, seorang kepala redaksi majalah Glossy dan Eve, mantan asistennya Imogen yang sempat keluar karena lanjutin sekolah dan masuk lagi dengan tujuan bikin dobrakan di Glossy (tapi kuduga sih untuk hancurin Imogen).
Eve , sebagai kaum milenial kekinian yang katanya usianya baru 20-entah-berapa itu pengin majalah Glossy berubah jadi format digital. Well, bagus. Sayangnya, makin hari, Eve makin ambisius dan kejam. Ia pun selalu ingin mendapatkan 'panggung'.Sudah gitu, semua karyawan disuruhnya untuk bekerja hampir 24 jam, memecat mereka seenaknya, mencuri ide Imogen, dan seringkali marah-marah tidak jelas dan menyombongkan diri sebagai lulusan Harvard. si Eve ini seakan meniru Imogen, bahkan sampai akan menikah dengan mantan suaminya Imogen. Eve juga bully anaknya Imogen lewat akun palsu. Idk, apakah Eve ini sosiopat atau hanya ambisius, atau sejenis ulat berbisa.
Imogen sebagai perempuan 42 tahun yang habis terkena kanker payudara, kucukup maklum kalau ia gaptek. Meskipun, kalau dipikir-pikir, orang tua sekarang yang usianya di atas Imogen bermain sosmed, tapi ya mungkin tiap orang berbeda. Saya suka Imogen, ia bukan 'kaum tua' yang menyebalkan. Justru, ia baik hati, manis, cerdik, dan sabar. Saya pun senang bagaimana Imogen 'membalas' segala perlakuan Eve terhadap dirinya dan semua karyawannya.
Aku lupa di halaman berapa, Imogen atau siapa bilang kalau anak-anak milenial mungkin lebih cerdas dan maju soal teknologi daripada orang seumuran Imogen, tetapi mereka seakan meninggalkan norma, kesopanan, dan nilai-nilai kebaikan yang ada. Mungkin benar, dan itu bisa mengingatkan kita sebagai angkatan muda, untuk nggak meninggalkan nilai-nilai kesopanan yang ada. Sekian, maafkan untuk review yang nggak jelas ini.
This is about a Fashion magazine going digital. And as I am not someone who "gets" fashion or even knows anything about it, this should be boring to me, right? I spend my money on books and my horse, not on clothes and stuff. I may like pictures of beautiful things, but what I see in fashion related advertising often does not at all appeal to me. But ... this book totally does. I am not that surprised, as I liked "Sushi for beginners", too. Because even if the subject is foreign to me, the story is about the people. And I adore Imogen Tate. I love how she deals with this new world she was not at all prepared for. How she learns and adapts, but stays the same classy women throughout. She overcomes hardships and setbacks and comes out on top, not despite of, but because of being a genuinely good person. I know that life does not always work like that, that life often is not fair. But that is what books are for, right? To give us stories who turn out exactly right.
I enjoyed every moment of this book, even the really hard times, because I just knew there would be an ending that would make it all worth it. Great stuff. And the performance of Katherine Kellgren added to my pleasure, as always.
I enjoyed every moment of this book, even the really hard times, because I just knew there would be an ending that would make it all worth it. Great stuff. And the performance of Katherine Kellgren added to my pleasure, as always.
Started slow but grew on me until I really enjoyed it.
This is a smartly written novel focused on the clash between gen X and millennials in the workplace. While the 'villian' in the novel comes from the millennial camp, the reader is left with the understanding that both generations have a lot to offer each other. I enjoyed the elements surrounding both the fashion and tech industries, and the characters were lovely, even the villains!
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
I read something that promised that The Knockoff would be the big beach read of 2015, a retelling of All About Eve set in the world of [b:The Devil Wears Prada|5139|The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)|Lauren Weisberger|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388179604s/5139.jpg|38765]. It sounded interesting enough, and I needed a palate cleanser, so I read it over the space of a few hours one night and the next morning.
In The Knockoff, 42-year-old cancer survivor Imogen Tate returns to her job as editor-in-chief of renowned fashion magazine Glossy after six months of sick leave to find that her former assistant Eve has convinced the company to replace the paper magazine with a website and app. Everyone Imogen worked with has been fired and replaced with 20-something techies willing to work around the clock for minimal pay. Eve refers to Imogen as a "dinosaur" and clearly wants to drive her out as well, but she needs access to all of Imogen's contacts in the fashion world first, so she settles for being publicly and privately cruel to Imogen while forcing Imogen to take her along to meetings with key designers and photographers. Eve is obsessed with technology and start-up culture and uses Imogen's technology ineptitude to humiliate and exclude her.
I was initially unimpressed with The Knockoff, for several reasons. The characters' speech is stilted and unnatural, mostly because this dialogue-heavy novel seems afraid to use contractions. I kept getting distracted from the story itself by thinking about how unconvincing the voices were.
On top of this, the premise of the book is hard to swallow. We are led to believe that Imogen is an extremely smart, put-together 42-year-old who is so confused and unaware about technology that she can barely access her own email and unironically talks about "the Twitter." Her level of discomfort with technology was pretty consistent with what I've seen from some (but certainly not all) of the people age 60+ I have worked with over the years, but I found it completely unconvincing that a 42-year-old editor-in-chief of what is apparently one of the world's most respected fashion magazines would be so completely clueless about technology.
Eve is also completely unrelatable. We're supposed to believe that she was charming and wonderful as Imogen's assistant and then somehow turned into a sociopathic robot after going away to business school for a couple of years. The story would have had more power for me if it really was just about the disconnect between the techy new guard and the face-to-face, people-focused old guard, without adding in the layer of the maniacally cruel boss figure.
In spite of all these things, though, The Knockoff won me over. Imogen's character develops as the story goes on, and I enjoyed getting to see her reinvent herself and her career. The story is fast-paced, and even though I guessed a lot of the twists before they were revealed, I wanted to keep reading to find out how everything would come together. In that sense, it's an excellent book for the beach or a plane. It could have been a lot better, but I still enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone looking for something lightweight and engaging.
In The Knockoff, 42-year-old cancer survivor Imogen Tate returns to her job as editor-in-chief of renowned fashion magazine Glossy after six months of sick leave to find that her former assistant Eve has convinced the company to replace the paper magazine with a website and app. Everyone Imogen worked with has been fired and replaced with 20-something techies willing to work around the clock for minimal pay. Eve refers to Imogen as a "dinosaur" and clearly wants to drive her out as well, but she needs access to all of Imogen's contacts in the fashion world first, so she settles for being publicly and privately cruel to Imogen while forcing Imogen to take her along to meetings with key designers and photographers. Eve is obsessed with technology and start-up culture and uses Imogen's technology ineptitude to humiliate and exclude her.
I was initially unimpressed with The Knockoff, for several reasons. The characters' speech is stilted and unnatural, mostly because this dialogue-heavy novel seems afraid to use contractions. I kept getting distracted from the story itself by thinking about how unconvincing the voices were.
On top of this, the premise of the book is hard to swallow. We are led to believe that Imogen is an extremely smart, put-together 42-year-old who is so confused and unaware about technology that she can barely access her own email and unironically talks about "the Twitter." Her level of discomfort with technology was pretty consistent with what I've seen from some (but certainly not all) of the people age 60+ I have worked with over the years, but I found it completely unconvincing that a 42-year-old editor-in-chief of what is apparently one of the world's most respected fashion magazines would be so completely clueless about technology.
Eve is also completely unrelatable. We're supposed to believe that she was charming and wonderful as Imogen's assistant and then somehow turned into a sociopathic robot after going away to business school for a couple of years. The story would have had more power for me if it really was just about the disconnect between the techy new guard and the face-to-face, people-focused old guard, without adding in the layer of the maniacally cruel boss figure.
In spite of all these things, though, The Knockoff won me over. Imogen's character develops as the story goes on, and I enjoyed getting to see her reinvent herself and her career. The story is fast-paced, and even though I guessed a lot of the twists before they were revealed, I wanted to keep reading to find out how everything would come together. In that sense, it's an excellent book for the beach or a plane. It could have been a lot better, but I still enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone looking for something lightweight and engaging.