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I read Startup in just a couple days. It was entertaining but often frustrating; my chief complaint is that it seems like this book got pushed out too quickly, before it was truly done. I caught multiple blatant errors--at one point, the author gets the story's two main companies mixed up and says Katya's first full-time job was at TakeOff, not TechScene. A few pages later, the end of some dialogue literally says "figure out if there's a there there." Seriously? No copyeditor, editor, publisher, or beta reader caught those mistakes? And those were just the most egregious ones.
Beyond that, it also seems like no 20-something actually read this book before it was published, or they would've pointed out that millennials don't text the way the author writes. Believe it or not, we often write in complete sentences with punctuation and capital letters and everything. No, we do not shorten people to "ppl" or any of the other silly abbreviations Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers seem to think we use.
The characters were often stereotypes and did silly things, but the dialogue did feel realistic to me. The author did a good job of capturing the way millennials talk.
Overall, entertaining book with occasional spot-on, funny observations about millennial life and startups. A good but not impressive read.
Beyond that, it also seems like no 20-something actually read this book before it was published, or they would've pointed out that millennials don't text the way the author writes. Believe it or not, we often write in complete sentences with punctuation and capital letters and everything. No, we do not shorten people to "ppl" or any of the other silly abbreviations Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers seem to think we use.
The characters were often stereotypes and did silly things, but the dialogue did feel realistic to me. The author did a good job of capturing the way millennials talk.
Overall, entertaining book with occasional spot-on, funny observations about millennial life and startups. A good but not impressive read.