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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36085.Everything_Bad_is_Good_for_You?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Everything Bad is Good for You" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168694070m/36085.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36085.Everything_Bad_is_Good_for_You?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Everything Bad is Good for You</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1563.Steven_Johnson">Steven Johnson</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18399940?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> not as good as his other books but worth a quick read: i'm a big fan of Stephen Johnson's writing. Interface Culture should be on every digital media-related course's reading list and blew my mind at the time. I also think Emergence is a great book, which expands into more scientific areas. that said, i found this book slightly disappointing. it is well written and interesting in parts but there's nothing especially surprising or thought-provoking in it (especially if you've read his other books) and i left feeling it would've been better as a magazine or newspaper article rather than something you have to pay £8 for. ironically (given the commentary on fit for purpose media). there was a fair bit of repetition (at one point i was thinking "if he mentions how gaming improves your cognitive skills one more time i'm gonna scream") and the referencing of Nietszche e.g. just struck me as gratuitous. if you're a fast reader or haven't read his other books then you may enjoy it but is less challenging and less interesting than his other writing. it's less academic and therefore more accessible than his other stuff so would probably buy this for someone that needed persuading, which perhaps is the audience he's aiming for with this one. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1015246?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>