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rachelcoconut 's review for:
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It: Stories from an Online Life
by Jess Kimball Leslie
I wanted to like this book. It started out sort of funny and highlighted some of the easily forgotten parts of the days of the early internet. Then it started to skip around and devolve. Some of the "facts" about the popularity and origins of things like Twitter and blogging were more opinions than actual fact. Her side stories into her friendship with wealthy, famous people were interesting but not fleshed out.
I wish she had written a straight up memoir without trying to shoehorn the history of the internet into it. It came across very choppy. It would have been easy to blend the internet stuff into a regular memoir; there was no reason for chapters and sections to be based around what website was popular at the time. It came across as forced and artificial. It also kept her from delving into anything personal too deeply. The author should have either written a memoir or written a social history of the internet not try to cover both in one book. As a result, she failed at both.
Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book.
I wish she had written a straight up memoir without trying to shoehorn the history of the internet into it. It came across very choppy. It would have been easy to blend the internet stuff into a regular memoir; there was no reason for chapters and sections to be based around what website was popular at the time. It came across as forced and artificial. It also kept her from delving into anything personal too deeply. The author should have either written a memoir or written a social history of the internet not try to cover both in one book. As a result, she failed at both.
Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book.