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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.
pandoramedusa's review against another edition
1.0
DNF @ page 125.
I just felt I was reading the thoughts of a very self-involved woman that I just didn't care about. I wish we would go deeper into the accounts of the boyfriend because that was the only interesting thing to me, but no.
I just felt I was reading the thoughts of a very self-involved woman that I just didn't care about. I wish we would go deeper into the accounts of the boyfriend because that was the only interesting thing to me, but no.
literarycrushes's review
2.0
The opening premise for Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler was unique and intriguing: an unnamed young woman finds out her boyfriend has been secretly running an Instagram account full of conspiracy theories and pro-Trump propaganda. Unfortunately, this storyline was pretty quickly cast aside (I don’t want to give spoilers, but it is picked up again only in the last few pages of the book) in favor of the main character’s decision to leave her life in New York and move to Berlin.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.
coruscations's review
2.0
One of the worst books I've ever read. Pretentious, self obsessed, pointless, boring.
txhiker's review
4.0
An excellent book that provides a unique commentary on contemporary life. It shines a light on the eroding role of trust from relationships (among individuals as well as between individuals and commercial entities). After finishing the book, I was vexed with these questions:
1) Why do easily trust the data in people's profiles on social media?
2)Isn't it ironic that our understanding of people arrives a tad too late to be useful, despite the promise of speed in the digital world?
1) Why do easily trust the data in people's profiles on social media?
2)Isn't it ironic that our understanding of people arrives a tad too late to be useful, despite the promise of speed in the digital world?
sharnie6's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
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