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Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
Posted: Mon September 10, 2018 8:59 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
I just finished the book version of The Circle. I could recommend the movie version instead but it got a 'happy' ending instead of the...dark?...version in the book. Either way it's an idea of where social media could go and how brainwashed/culty the people who work there are and how best intentions are always lining the road to hell. It's also obviously overwrought and written from an out-of-proportion point-of-view so it's hard to take seriously.
I am beginning to wonder if I blame the narrator on the audiobook for that or if it was just written that way.
Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
Posted: Mon September 10, 2018 9:26 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
I had the opposite take, reading the book. It scared the hell out of me specifically because nothing in it seemed out-of-proportion except for the stupid, unrealistic love story arc.
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I had the opposite take, reading the book. It scared the hell out of me specifically because nothing in it seemed out-of-proportion except for the stupid, unrealistic love story arc.
Book was great, movie was atrocious.
I also enjoyed the book and felt it was a little too realistic.
Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
Posted: Mon September 10, 2018 10:14 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
I keep seeing that the book seemed realistic but I never felt that way. Maybe I'm just far enough out of the loop that the whole thing sounded ridiculous. I mean "We sent a bunch of frowns to that nation's government so they know what's up" was a legit sentence that was supposed to be taken seriously? Or how about "Oh no, 6% of the people here gave me a frownie face, why do they want me dead?!"
And yeah all of the romance in the book was terrible. Either she was chasing a guy that her "friend" was constantly giving her grief about or she was chasing a guy who couldn't perform his way out of a paper bag and demanded her rate his abilities.
edit: Though I guess it's telling that almost all of the top quotes on Goodreads are from Mercer.
Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
Posted: Tue September 11, 2018 8:01 am
Broken Tamborine
Joined: Thu January 31, 2013 7:26 pm Posts: 368
There's a headline on a news site that various celebrities are ditching their social media. Well good for them! They can just ring up a newspaper and get their opinion printed there instead. Fuckin ell...
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Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
Posted: Tue September 11, 2018 10:25 am
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14267
Let's all laugh at Rangers wrote:
There's a headline on a news site that various celebrities are ditching their social media. Well good for them! They can just ring up a newspaper and get their opinion printed there instead. Fuckin ell...
The are probably gunning to be the next Guardians director
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