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A review by monitaroymohan
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
5.0
This book was a trip and also trippy. I feel like I’m having an existential crisis, and the Earth beneath my feet has shifted, and that’s somehow a good thing. This book is so weird, but also so weirdly good. I loved it. But I had to take breaks reading it because it was breaking my brain.
There’s a couple of plot holes that weren’t filled, and those answers will drive me around the bend for a bit, but wow this book was an experience. It’s so unexpected. The format is unique yet so relevant and a lot of the discourse felt way too eerily familiar. The author really understands how we use Slack and imbued different characters with their own unique personalities, despite it all being just a bunch of text messages. And somehow, there’s a cute love story in there as well. Like what?
I think the fact that the organization at the centre of the book works in the fields I’m familiar with helped me engage even more with the work culture and projects in the book. I understood these folks and their jobs.
There was a plot twist that broke my brain to the extent that I went back and skimmed the book to make sure the seeds had correctly been planted. Indeed they had.
My only criticism is that the emojis were written in text code and not as images, so I feel like some of the authenticity was missing. But that’s a minor nitpick which didn’t impact the overall reading experience.
The way the tension and suspense built up in the final act was so stressful it was nigh impossible to stop reading. I had to know how it would end. Great writing there.
This book is highly recommended to anyone looking for a truly different reading experience.
There’s a couple of plot holes that weren’t filled, and those answers will drive me around the bend for a bit, but wow this book was an experience. It’s so unexpected. The format is unique yet so relevant and a lot of the discourse felt way too eerily familiar. The author really understands how we use Slack and imbued different characters with their own unique personalities, despite it all being just a bunch of text messages. And somehow, there’s a cute love story in there as well. Like what?
I think the fact that the organization at the centre of the book works in the fields I’m familiar with helped me engage even more with the work culture and projects in the book. I understood these folks and their jobs.
There was a plot twist that broke my brain to the extent that I went back and skimmed the book to make sure the seeds had correctly been planted. Indeed they had.
My only criticism is that the emojis were written in text code and not as images, so I feel like some of the authenticity was missing. But that’s a minor nitpick which didn’t impact the overall reading experience.
The way the tension and suspense built up in the final act was so stressful it was nigh impossible to stop reading. I had to know how it would end. Great writing there.
This book is highly recommended to anyone looking for a truly different reading experience.