A review by gemchiara
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek

3.0

Reading 'I Hate the Internet' proved to be difficult for me. On one hand I liked the political correctness in the book and the way Kobek touches on many different subjects and manages to wonderfully intertwine fiction and fact, but the way the story is told, in the past tense, made me feel as if the author was mansplaining to me. The repetition of certain things instead becomes tiresome as the narrative continues and I feel the character of Adeline, who is a sort of protagonist, is not well developed whatsoever and seems truly dreadful despite trying to seem like a feminist icon. However the story was interesting and a great witty portrayal of the internet age, I just couldn't shake the notion of reading an almost 300 page article of 'why millenials and the internet generation sucks'.