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Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange

Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley The Word Exchangeby Alena Graedon dystopian, science fiction that was published by Anchor Books on April 8, 2014 and has 384 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon An ARC I received through NetGalley set in a dystopian horror of a world, an age-old story of progress and greed with a “rags-to-riches” success story in which greed overcomes commonsense. My Take Wow. Just wow. This was/is terrifying. When you think of how ubiquitous the computer is in our world, how reliant we are upon it, upon the Internet. How much I rely upon it! The “progress” our world is making in conjoining human with machine — think of Google Glass! I’ve always been so impressed with how much people in the past could remember, could quote passages from memory. I wondered why we no longer did such a thing. A large part of it, I suspect, is that we have too many books in the world today. We read a book, and we’re done with it. We move on to the […]

Posted April 7, 2014 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments