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A review by asterope
Escape: How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet by Marie Le Conte
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.25
Honestly, reading this was a form of self-care. I really needed this - something I can truly connect with. Highly recommend this for anyone in the same generation.
This sounds sad, but it made me feel less alone. Especially when I have to ask my Gen Z colleagues what their slang means because I didn’t understand what they just said lol :(
I really appreciated the candour and incisiveness of this memoir. Many of the points were things I’ve been thinking about and feeling for a while now, but I hadn’t come across in written form. It put words to those feelings and made me realise I’m just not just imagining them. We are truly well past the good old days of the internet.
I didn’t agree with absolutely everything though - the author seems to have had way more luck with finding community in the internet than I have. She makes it sound too easy at times! Her life was wild compared to your average millennial’s. There’s also a touch too much of ‘overly sincere humbleness’. But this is a memoir, not an analysis, so I wasn't expecting it to cover all bases.
After reading this book, I definitely want to seek out more writing on similar topics.
This sounds sad, but it made me feel less alone. Especially when I have to ask my Gen Z colleagues what their slang means because I didn’t understand what they just said lol :(
I really appreciated the candour and incisiveness of this memoir. Many of the points were things I’ve been thinking about and feeling for a while now, but I hadn’t come across in written form. It put words to those feelings and made me realise I’m just not just imagining them. We are truly well past the good old days of the internet.
I didn’t agree with absolutely everything though - the author seems to have had way more luck with finding community in the internet than I have. She makes it sound too easy at times! Her life was wild compared to your average millennial’s. There’s also a touch too much of ‘overly sincere humbleness’. But this is a memoir, not an analysis, so I wasn't expecting it to cover all bases.
After reading this book, I definitely want to seek out more writing on similar topics.