I listened to the audiobook, and it was fantastic for the most part. I really enjoyed the tone of the book at how he managed to make a quite computerery topic accesible to the public.
Ive got two issues with the book however. One, which is regularly talked about when critiquing the book, is that some aspects such as conversations are so descriptive its hard to imagine they arent complete fiction.
The other however is that the author constantly sexualises Julia. I domt understand the need to constantly involve her with eroticicism: trying to buy sexy lingerie, havibg sex on the cliff, sexy skype calls etc.
I felt he was constantly talking about her sexual nature and it was a bit off putting as im not sure it was needed. Why did he need to mention that the sype call they meant to have was going to be sexual like 3 times?? Why not call it romantic and move past?
This is just my opinion bit it seemed unnecessary.
I would give it a rating of 6.8/10
by HouseOnnaHill
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Also the twin towers were mentioned so many times. So many times.
Is sex bad? Do women not like sex? I didn’t know.
I guess every page of the book has Julia being sexy. It’s constant! Nothing else happens!
Dialogue in a book definitely needs be like real conversations. Nobody likes reading dialogue that doesn’t have long pauses, coughing fits, ‘uh, um, well’, etc. It’s way too easy. You gotta have all that extraneous crap that people do. Definitely want every conversation to start with some irrelevant ice-breaking, ‘how’s your mom’ or ‘man, it’s hot today’.
I swear to G_D, this sub is primarily filled with people that hate literature, hate when people aren’t like them, and absolutely hate cognitive dissonance.