This was my plan ride (twice), my 20 minutes before bed and my day at the beach (water parks are close enough) and as always Scott Westerfeld does not disappoint.
Similarly to his book Peeps (Not so much The Last Days that one was weird) every chapter started out with a story or definition. This is perhaps one of my favourite things that Westerfeld does in his writing. I love to learn new thing and picking up random interesting facts that I can spurt out in the middle of awkward conversations and Scott Westerfeld's books are one of my largest sources for this. I'm still raving about Toxoplasmosis and it's been 4 years since I read Peeps.
Anyways, So Yesterday is all about cool and consumerism. It reminded me a lot of The Tipping Point only in novel form with a mystery woven in. It breaks down society into it's elements and describes how they interact which is very fascinating.
One of the best points that the book brings up is how hard it is to be "cool", how ambiguous cool really is and how cool doesn't last or really matter. We all spend so much time in out lives worrying about what other people will think about us if we wear something or listen to a certain band that we aren't really ourselves anymore. We are all sheep and we all fall for stupid advertisements because we can't help it because of the way our brains are programmed. Everything's been done before and originality is dead. We just need to move on with our lives.
I give this book 8 pairs of shoes out of 10. It was really well written but it wasn't what I expected. I wanted more and it left me high and dry. It was still a fantastic read.
Similarly to his book Peeps (Not so much The Last Days that one was weird) every chapter started out with a story or definition. This is perhaps one of my favourite things that Westerfeld does in his writing. I love to learn new thing and picking up random interesting facts that I can spurt out in the middle of awkward conversations and Scott Westerfeld's books are one of my largest sources for this. I'm still raving about Toxoplasmosis and it's been 4 years since I read Peeps.
Anyways, So Yesterday is all about cool and consumerism. It reminded me a lot of The Tipping Point only in novel form with a mystery woven in. It breaks down society into it's elements and describes how they interact which is very fascinating.
One of the best points that the book brings up is how hard it is to be "cool", how ambiguous cool really is and how cool doesn't last or really matter. We all spend so much time in out lives worrying about what other people will think about us if we wear something or listen to a certain band that we aren't really ourselves anymore. We are all sheep and we all fall for stupid advertisements because we can't help it because of the way our brains are programmed. Everything's been done before and originality is dead. We just need to move on with our lives.
I give this book 8 pairs of shoes out of 10. It was really well written but it wasn't what I expected. I wanted more and it left me high and dry. It was still a fantastic read.
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