I Hate the Internet

I Hate the Internet

by Jarett Kobek
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/11/2016

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In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything.


In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up making her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like 'Drp slut ... hope u get gang rape.'


Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.

ISBN:
9781782833147
9781782833147
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
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Jarett Kobek

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada.

His first novel I Hate the Internet was a bestseller everywhere, but especially in Serbia where people really went nuts for it.

His second novel The Future Won't Be Long wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but it was published in the United States by an imprint of a company that spent much of World War 2 printing propaganda for Nazi Germany. So there's that. Hypocrisy, folks! It's everywhere!

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