Ridiculous, absurd, hilarious and un-put-downable! Get ready for a treat!
First, you must have some knowledge of what Slack is or used it, that is t Ridiculous, absurd, hilarious and un-put-downable! Get ready for a treat!
First, you must have some knowledge of what Slack is or used it, that is the only way this book will make any form of sense... and even then, it is still absurd.
In Several People Are Typing we meet Gerald who's consciousness is uploaded into Slack, his body is in the real world and he cannot seem to convince anyone to believe him that he is IN SLACK. In all seriousness, would you believe him?
The book is structured through slack channels and that's how the author moves the plot along, introduce us to characters and what life is like working for a PR firm. How the author played with structure and story telling was fresh and very engaging. It's like you are literally learning about these people from their conversations and it is beautifully done. I found myself laughing out loud as how realistic the office setting was... I believed it and I see my co-workers in so many of these characters: The office gossip The weird boss The couple who is dating but wont let you know The office cliques The cool crowd The new hire
Give Calvin Kasulke is flowers because this was a big risk structure wise but it paid off! Such a great, fresh and captivating read! I WANT MORE! ...more
That’s what racism in the workplace looked like. You could feel it everywhere- in your brain, in your heart, in your bones- but you could never prove That’s what racism in the workplace looked like. You could feel it everywhere- in your brain, in your heart, in your bones- but you could never prove it.
In Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel New Wave we meet two friends- Margo and Lucas who are both working for a technology company. Margo is a top programmer at the company but is also the token black girl who is constantly pointing out misogyny and racism. Lucas is at the bottom of the company’s structure, a lowly paid customer service representative who is can hardly make ends meet. Margo is Lucas only friend, they work together and they both feel let down by the company they work for. One evening while getting drunk Margo comes up with this idea of stealing all the data of the company’s users, as a means of revenge. Their theft goes undetected but Lucas does not feel good about it. A few weeks after Margo dies in an accident… but was it actually an accident? What will Lucas do with the information he stole?
Margo’s mother asks Lucas for his help in deleting Margo’s Facebook account. It is through that interaction Lucas stole Margo’s laptop and was introduced to who Margo really is. This debut novel started off strong. I loved the premise of stolen data, possible murder and mystery- I thought I was in for a thrilling ride. There were some high moments but generally there was a smoothing lull throughout. I liked getting a look into the start-up culture it was great hearing about the pitches to investors but generally I was not floored.
I can safely say that I will be reading more from Kevin Nyugen in the future. This was a great attempt at a debut, and I did enjoy the read.
What this book taught me: The longest record for running a marathon is 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds
Over 140,000 people died in the Great Kanto earthquake ...more
In Uncanny Valley we meet Anna Wiener who is living in New York City and working in the publishing industry. While it all seems glamorous, a young wIn Uncanny Valley we meet Anna Wiener who is living in New York City and working in the publishing industry. While it all seems glamorous, a young woman living and working in NYC, attending all the publishing events, that is not the case. Anna lives on the kindness of her parents to help her out most months. When an opportunity in tech publishing presents itself, even though Anna doesn’t want to feel like a sell-out but grabs it anyway. With her first introduction to tech and start-up culture Anna finds herself moving to San Francisco to work in an area she is barely familiar with.
Anna assimilates and is able to learn and make that cultural shift in the tech industry. She get use to the work from home culture, the athleisure wear, the tech jargons and lives in a world that she never in a million year thought she would be a part of. Even though things are going great for Anna, a great job, well paid with a lot of benefits, she finds herself feeling unfulfilled and surrounded by constant misogyny. Anna is out of her element and does not know how to approach this situation, should she speak up? Let it pass? Work to change the culture… what should she do?
I have this weird fascination with Silicon Valley and Start-up culture- I am not sure where it came from and why it wont leave. When I read the blurb for Uncanny Valley I had to read it, I wanted to find out more! The book started out really promising, Anna was able to really pull you in and show you what it is like moving from publishing to tech. The book started to fall off in the middle, it just did not go anywhere.
I know it should be a memoir but it didn’t real like that, it felt very distance. I finished the book not really knowing who Anna is or getting a more in-depth look into the start-up culture. I also felt the book could have shorter by 50-80 pages, a lot of what was said was repeated or not necessarily informative.
I really wanted to love this, I really enjoyed the beginning but it just fell flat after. ...more
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