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A review by sonjaloviisa
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
3.0
Reading this was like listening to a paranoid and stoned uncle ramble on about conspiracy theories. Crude to the point of hilarity, with a little seed of truth in the middle, raising lots of good points.
I originally thought this was a work of nonfiction, to find out it was in fact a work of nonfiction wrapped in a really bad work of fiction. The actual story itself was not that great, but Kobek even admits it himself within the book. This was also full of typos, which I don’t think were intentional, and were therefore annoying. But this also expanded my understanding of capitalism, culture, and hidden histories. Many of the facts (which I had to keep fact-checking, since this was, after all, a work of fiction) within this book were ones that I had never heard of, inspiring me to really look more into alternative histories and not just believe whatever mass media tells us.
I originally thought this was a work of nonfiction, to find out it was in fact a work of nonfiction wrapped in a really bad work of fiction. The actual story itself was not that great, but Kobek even admits it himself within the book. This was also full of typos, which I don’t think were intentional, and were therefore annoying. But this also expanded my understanding of capitalism, culture, and hidden histories. Many of the facts (which I had to keep fact-checking, since this was, after all, a work of fiction) within this book were ones that I had never heard of, inspiring me to really look more into alternative histories and not just believe whatever mass media tells us.