A Novel
by Patricia Lockwood
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American activist (born 1990 or 1991)
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Jack Edwards and Rob Delaney
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Starts as a razor-sharp, fragmentary account of life inside social media’s noise: quick, funny, aphoristic bursts that mimic scrolling. The most useful part is the language — witty, often startling lines that name the strangeness of attention culture. The main limitation is form and tone: chapters are episodic, then pivot into a quiet, grief-focused section that can feel like a different book; readers who want a linear plot or steady pacing may find the shifts jarring and the repetition tiring.
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As this urgent, genredefying 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 ...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Fantasy and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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