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technicolour's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
andotherworlds's review
2.0
2 // oh my god was this dry and painful (rtc hopefully)
ohhh look i am actually writing a review:
Ok so this book was bad. The idea behind it was somewhat enticing, and I received it as a gift so I partially forced myself into giving it a try, but oh how I regret that. The only why I can describe it is like if you were watching an NYU film major's short film on a moody white liberal female protagonist in Berlin. The entire book feels like the author is trying to brandish their ability to string a sentence together with eloquent vocabulary, but all that is achieved is pretentious nonsense. The only redeeming quality in this book is the plot towards the end, but even that wasn't enough to make me like it. The rest was just listening to a privileged white woman hyper focus on her boring boyfriend. The entire time we hear all these subtle "flexes" of her ability to live this generally rich/pretentious (yes I will repeat this word because I find it is the optimal way of describing this all) lifestyle including indefinite travel, yoga, and Twitter.
Perhaps the target demographic for this was hipster, gentrified Brooklyn millennials (which would make some sense as I was sent this from a monthly Strand box), so if you fit such descriptions then maybe you would enjoy this. Personally, this was simply not for me.
ohhh look i am actually writing a review:
Ok so this book was bad. The idea behind it was somewhat enticing, and I received it as a gift so I partially forced myself into giving it a try, but oh how I regret that. The only why I can describe it is like if you were watching an NYU film major's short film on a moody white liberal female protagonist in Berlin. The entire book feels like the author is trying to brandish their ability to string a sentence together with eloquent vocabulary, but all that is achieved is pretentious nonsense. The only redeeming quality in this book is the plot towards the end, but even that wasn't enough to make me like it. The rest was just listening to a privileged white woman hyper focus on her boring boyfriend. The entire time we hear all these subtle "flexes" of her ability to live this generally rich/pretentious (yes I will repeat this word because I find it is the optimal way of describing this all) lifestyle including indefinite travel, yoga, and Twitter.
Perhaps the target demographic for this was hipster, gentrified Brooklyn millennials (which would make some sense as I was sent this from a monthly Strand box), so if you fit such descriptions then maybe you would enjoy this. Personally, this was simply not for me.
hicklit's review
4.0
4.5
Meta
Disassociation
Surface level in that this person is named this and this person is named this and morphed into a fused yet separate account of me being my persona online critiquing, obliging, and deciding to ignore other said personas becuase no one can be as fake deep as you.
Loved the way the writing was very airy and cerebral. Didn’t mind some of it going over my head and tooted my horn on every account that I could follow. No pun intended. I had a hunch about the discovery once in Berlin but I did not expect the the ending to turn everything on its head. By the wrap up, I kinda felt like yes bf was and is shitty but also she might be a close second.
Meta
Disassociation
Surface level in that this person is named this and this person is named this and morphed into a fused yet separate account of me being my persona online critiquing, obliging, and deciding to ignore other said personas becuase no one can be as fake deep as you.
Loved the way the writing was very airy and cerebral. Didn’t mind some of it going over my head and tooted my horn on every account that I could follow. No pun intended. I had a hunch about the discovery once in Berlin but I did not expect the the ending to turn everything on its head. By the wrap up, I kinda felt like yes bf was and is shitty but also she might be a close second.
ljane44's review
3.0
Hilarious and relatable writing about the truths we reveal and the ones we don’t. Definitely dragged at points as very little plot actually happens, but ultimately resonated and made me think. I’ll be thinking about Relationship Anarchy forever probably.
nickedkins's review
4.0
A great, knowing narrative tone, interesting plot, quick and sharp characterisations of the characters, even incidental ones.
The huge quantities of introspection and app-using occasionally made me want to throw my phone out the window and go look at a tree, but I guess that's my fault for reading a book about the internet.
The huge quantities of introspection and app-using occasionally made me want to throw my phone out the window and go look at a tree, but I guess that's my fault for reading a book about the internet.
taleen2's review
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kdahlo's review
3.0
This book has a deliberately annoying narrator and makes less of an interesting premise than I would have expected. Still, I enjoyed my time with the characters, and the writing was funny.
bedtimesnack's review
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I think this book has interesting things to say but I had such a hard time being patient enough to hear them out. A bit of a slog to get through.
lillycano's review
3.0
I need my friends to read this book so I can hear their opinion. I am stumped if I loved or hated this book. It kind of hurts my head what I just read. The main character doesn’t have a name and becomes a okcupid serial dater. I kept flipping to the front of the book confused what I was reading, double checking that it was in fact a novel and not a think piece. Help friends.