On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:06:17 +1300, Titus G <
noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
Three Eight One. Aliya Whiteley
An author from 2314 attempts to understand life in 2024 by footnoting a
quest story from that time. The quest story itself is unbelievably trite
and boring as a front for life as we know it, with few social insights.
The footnotes are real footnotes at the rear of the book but have to be
read as soon as referenced in the text which is annoying even though
handled easily by the Kindle. The footnotes are of a different authorial >style thereby interrupting the flow of the 2024 story and also, with a >completely differing content being from the perspective of a future
society of shared consciousness where commercial and political
disinformation and mythology no longer exist. I guess that the main
purpose of the book was to develop an understanding of this future
society through its analysis of 2024 society whilst questioning aspects
of 2024, exploitation, government, etc, but I didn't read enough to find
out. I read about 40% of the quest plus the appropriate footnotes so
well over half the book but it was sending me to sleep so I stopped.
Something that, when read, sends one to sleep can be of great value to
some people.
And, yes, once I figured out how footnotes work in my year-old
Kindles, footnotes have become very easy to use.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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