Good or Bad Novel?

Jarett Kobek’s book I Hate the Internet is centered around a woman named Adeline, who is experiencing abuse through the internet. It also brings sensitive topics in today’s society, like rape, racism, and death, to the forefront of the readers’ attention. The author starts to get into his topics on a positive and hopeful note, getting the readers’ attention, then shuts it down and pushes them away. This book has “this is not a good novel” or “this bad novel” written throughout its entirety, due to Kobek believing it’s exploiting society issues and for having to suffer through his “moral outrages.”

Kobek brings up many topics that would end up being very important to this short story he’s creating, but he is continually jumping from one extreme of a topic to another. He ends up going into deep details about subjects that aren’t really necessary to the story line. With the topics always jumping around, it makes it hard to follow along with and to keep track of what is going on. The way he wrote this book is sloppy, with contradictions happening throughout its entirety, making it hard for the readers to determine the point that he is trying to get across to us. He only touches the tip of the iceberg with everything he mentions, leaving us lost and clueless. I personally love to read, but it was difficult for me to get through this book in its entirety with how much it keeps skipping around and how it doesn’t finish explaining its’ subjects.