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| The novelist Bret Easton Ellis, reading I Hate the Internet in bed |
Reading:
Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet, 167-230
Study Questions:
1. How seriously are we to take Christine's neo-pagan devotion to the executives of Silicon Valley? What is the logic behind it?
2. I Hate the Internet is a self-confessed "bad novel" because it does not conform to the literary conventions propagated by the likes of Jonathan Franzen (worth reading despite the abuse he takes here and elsewhere) and the late modernists of the 1950s--those covertly funded by the CIA. With this in mind, what are we to make of the missing chapter in the book? How should we differentiate it from the fake Buzzfeed list inserted later in the book?
