Jak
My friend Ian gifted this to me a while back (Xmas 2022) but I only just now started it. Didn't realize it was originally published in 1985, and this is a 20yr re-release edition. Even then, this edition is itself nearly 20 years old. Was a bit of a hard read, even though it was fairly short. I kept on putting it down for weeks or months at a time, then would pick it back up and read another couple of chapters. I disagreed with large swaths of the book, but found other parts interesting or oddly prescient of the current media landscape. All in all I'd say this was a very thought-provoking book, though most of the time the thoughts it provoked were ones of disagreement.
My friend Ian gifted this to me a while back (Xmas 2022) but I only just now started it. Didn't realize it was originally published in 1985, and this is a 20yr re-release edition. Even then, this edition is itself nearly 20 years old. Was a bit of a hard read, even though it was fairly short. I kept on putting it down for weeks or months at a time, then would pick it back up and read another couple of chapters. I disagreed with large swaths of the book, but found other parts interesting or oddly prescient of the current media landscape. All in all I'd say this was a very thought-provoking book, though most of the time the thoughts it provoked were ones of disagreement.