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This was a weird book…. The premise was great and I really enjoyed bits of it but it was just a bit… too much. And how is it 2023 😱 here‘s my #bookspin for Jan!

#Ispy a book that is purple. @Trashcanman @4thhouseontheleft @MrBook and anyone else, can you find one that is green.

As a surrealist corporate-techno-fascist satire, this book is undoubtedly brilliant. It is also quite funny much of the time & I did feel compelled to keep reading. However the pace is unrelenting & exhausting - it's like being subjected to a never-ending manic TEDTalk on trans humanism, or to a looping tape of Mark Zuckerberg attempting to look & sound less dead-eyed in a BBC interview gone horribly awry. In other words, it's just TOO MUCH.

Eeeking out the sunshine in what has been a wonderful reading spot, not sure I'll ever be able to beat it!

Dystopian near-future satire along the lines of Dave Eggers' The Circle or Annalee Newitz's Autonomous. There are so many ideas fizzing around that it can all get a bit overwhelming, and, like so many novels of this type, the characters tend to be a bit thinly-drawn. But it's still an entertaining and thought-provoking read. Don't blame me if you feel like chucking your smartphone in the bin at the end of it.

This book is great!