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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
I ended up enjoying this book more than I thought I would. From the very start, though, the author’s ton as a disaffected Gen Xer was almost too much to bear.
Yes! Preach!
Disappointed in the cop out ending, but you know I love being reminded of my righteous rage against men and how obliviously terrible they can be.
Maybe there will be a follow-up. It should have just been a novel with a legit ending, but I would read a follow-up.
Disappointed in the cop out ending, but you know I love being reminded of my righteous rage against men and how obliviously terrible they can be.
Maybe there will be a follow-up. It should have just been a novel with a legit ending, but I would read a follow-up.
Not a bad 1st novel. Some of the characters are a little hard to get into, but I imagine this is what the tech world would be like if it was on the East Coast instead of the West Coast. Ends on a bit of cliffhanger that I hope gets flushed out in a follow up.
Meh. Sometimes I don't mind that I don't like any of the characters. This time I did. I just couldn't bring myself to care about any of them.
This was not as light-hearted as I thought it would be!
I give it 3-3.5 stars. It was a quick easy read although the content ended up focusing more on workplace harassment and millennial culture. I found it really interesting but would have appreciated more focus on the intersectionality of race and gender in the book.
I give it 3-3.5 stars. It was a quick easy read although the content ended up focusing more on workplace harassment and millennial culture. I found it really interesting but would have appreciated more focus on the intersectionality of race and gender in the book.
This one was absolutely delightful and I tore through it over the Memorial Day. :)
I was already a fan of author Doree Shafrir's writing as she'd written for BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone and when I read her debut novel was a satirical startup culture in NYC, I knew I had to read it. I actually read it one day--it's not quite 300 pages and the story moves quickly. She follows several 20-somethings and a few *aged* GenXers--Sabrina and Dan, a married couple in their late 30s in a story that covers New York's burgeoning tech scene and their comparisons to Silicon Valley, venture capitalists, "angel money," aggredated data/click bait, a bit of satire on the work/life/life is your work culture that apparently permeates some workplaces with mostly millennials working there and...dare I mention it---why sending dick pictures to work place colleagues is probably not the best idea. My only complaint was that I wished the book had been longer.
I was already a fan of author Doree Shafrir's writing as she'd written for BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone and when I read her debut novel was a satirical startup culture in NYC, I knew I had to read it. I actually read it one day--it's not quite 300 pages and the story moves quickly. She follows several 20-somethings and a few *aged* GenXers--Sabrina and Dan, a married couple in their late 30s in a story that covers New York's burgeoning tech scene and their comparisons to Silicon Valley, venture capitalists, "angel money," aggredated data/click bait, a bit of satire on the work/life/life is your work culture that apparently permeates some workplaces with mostly millennials working there and...dare I mention it---why sending dick pictures to work place colleagues is probably not the best idea. My only complaint was that I wished the book had been longer.
Very fun satire on start-up culture, with astute commentary on gender issues that's fun to read and sympathetic to female and male characters. A bit of a cheesy ending.
These books - by which I apparently mean books focusing on women working in present day NYC - are apparently catnip to me. I read Startup in one glorious evening and truly couldn't put it down, despite its bouts of silliness, explanations of twitter eggs, and odd plots twists. I quite enjoyed it. I also don't think anyone would have served or eaten bagels in the meetings mentioned, but maybe that's my west coast bias.
This was an interesting enough read to begin with, but by the end of the book I disliked all of the characters and felt let down by the story. There were several loose ends that seemed like important story arcs but weren't tied up that led to me knocking a star off my rating. I did find the commentary on our fast news culture really interesting, along with the glimpse into the startup/venture capital/money raising world.