No one is Talking About This

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"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary"-- Provided by publisher.

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Lots of effort submitted by avandeusen on July 17, 2021, 10:28am I did not love nor hate this book, all I was really left with after reading it was that Patricia Lockwood was trying *so hard* to be interesting in her writing.

disappointed submitted by mlmchale on June 10, 2022, 1:13pm I gave up on this book fairly early. The writing is a kind of stream-of-consciousness, non-linear style where there's a section break every paragraph or two to a completely different topic.

I get that the author is trying to emulate the feel of living in a Twitter-style universe, but the effect was too utterly disjointed to hold my attention for more than a few minutes. The overall effect just didn't work for me at all.

highly unusual, but interesting submitted by TeacherN on June 15, 2022, 4:51pm I almost gave up on this book, but I'm glad I didn't. It was definitely unusual, but it made me think.

I finished it submitted by Droeske1 on March 13, 2024, 2:30am That's it. I finished it. As others have said, it wasn't great but also didn't make the DNF list. I didn't understand it until 1/3 of the way through. I appreciate what she was trying to do and the overall message. I would suggest that if you do read this book, read the acknowledgements at the end; that really was what made the entire book hit home for me and changed my mind from a two star experience to a three star. It is a very quick read thankfully.