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Solving For Y
From the tech boom of the 1990s to the bursting of the tech bubble, Y is there.
From the turn of the millennium to the rise of social media, Y is there.
From the emergence of mind-expanding technologies to the cusp of a post-Earth future, Y is there.
Solving For Y, the second novel from Frederick Barrows, explores free agency, both personally and professionally. It also highlights the inherent mystery and ultimate unknowability of others.
Embodying these ideas is the outwardly enigmatic Y. Readers experience the world from Y’s intensely immediate point of view as he doggedly pursues a career in information technology. Those most closely orbiting his life, however, struggle to reconcile Y’s lack of dependence on others, be it emotionally or materially, with a need to find a defining purpose in their own lives.
When it comes to the considered life, there are no easy answers.
From the turn of the millennium to the rise of social media, Y is there.
From the emergence of mind-expanding technologies to the cusp of a post-Earth future, Y is there.
Solving For Y, the second novel from Frederick Barrows, explores free agency, both personally and professionally. It also highlights the inherent mystery and ultimate unknowability of others.
Embodying these ideas is the outwardly enigmatic Y. Readers experience the world from Y’s intensely immediate point of view as he doggedly pursues a career in information technology. Those most closely orbiting his life, however, struggle to reconcile Y’s lack of dependence on others, be it emotionally or materially, with a need to find a defining purpose in their own lives.
When it comes to the considered life, there are no easy answers.
303 pages, ebook
First published November 18, 2014
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August 27, 2014
When I found this book on NetGalley, I thought Y was a reference to Generation Y, and as a member of this generation, I was intrigued. After finishing it (which took about a week thanks, to the mediocre writing style and barely-there plot to keep me reading, by the way), I should say I expected so much more.
I don't see a point in sparing every problem a paragraph, so I'll just list them and get it over with.
- The characters couldn't have been more shallow.
- The dialogues were, well, okay, I think. I can't point out anywhere I really liked, but they didn't bore me to tears either. If there is one thing that made me read more of it, that was dialogues. I loved how quotation marks weren't used for Y's parts in the dialogues.
- Needless to say, the writing. It was too sketchy and amateurish. Sometimes I felt like that could be on purpose, though, but I have my doubts.
- The plot? Huh, what is that?
In conclusion, this goes to my 0-out-of-5 shelf.
I don't see a point in sparing every problem a paragraph, so I'll just list them and get it over with.
- The characters couldn't have been more shallow.
- The dialogues were, well, okay, I think. I can't point out anywhere I really liked, but they didn't bore me to tears either. If there is one thing that made me read more of it, that was dialogues. I loved how quotation marks weren't used for Y's parts in the dialogues.
- Needless to say, the writing. It was too sketchy and amateurish. Sometimes I felt like that could be on purpose, though, but I have my doubts.
- The plot? Huh, what is that?
In conclusion, this goes to my 0-out-of-5 shelf.
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