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Honestly? I found it a chore to read - and finish. The book is a compendium of modern communications such as blogs, tweets, emails, newspaper articles, and so on,  each one faithfully imitating the tone of its purported author, e.g. newspaper reporter, influencer, blogger... The overall message, as I got it, is a rather depressing one: humans have become herd animals, bleating with sheep and lowing with cattle. Get us fired up and our opinions will fly - the less we know, the more we talk because we are suspicious, disbelieving, knowing better because it has been predicted by someone somewhere, and we read it on the internet. Fed Up (FU!), we pick a camp or form a new one. Fake news abound, real news are shady; after all, everything is open to interpretation. Let it all escalate to a fever pitch... Yes, it is what is out there, both with the unnamed former president, his unnamed First Lady and the present pandemic, and... and... I think, I got the message - or maybe not, but well before I reached the half-mark I became tired because everything became so predictable and monotonous and, frankly, as boring as h.... Maybe all of this could have been said in far fewer words and with an ending that actually fitted. Not my kind of humor or book.

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This one looked interesting but ultimately was not for me. It reads like lots of newspaper articles, blog posts, messages, cleverly representing the online world and the outrage phenomenon. Interesting and witty concept, but the format didn’t grab me. It felt like reading a bunch of opinion articles online that I would normally skip past or skim through.

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