Meatspace, by Nikesh Shukla
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Meatspace, by Nikesh Shukla
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The second novel from Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author Nikesh Shukla.
'The first and last thing I do every day is see what strangers are saying about me.'
Kitab Balasubramanyam has had a rough few months. His girlfriend left him. He got fired from the job he hated for writing a novel on company time, but the novel didn’t sell and now he’s burning through his mum’s life insurance money. His father has more success with women than he does, and his Facebook comments get more likes. Kitab is reduced to spending all of his time in his flat with his brother Aziz, coming up with ideas for novelty Tumblrs and composing amusing tweets. But now even Aziz has left him, travelling to America to find his doppelganger.
So what happens when Kitab Balasubramanyam’s only internet namesake turns up on his doorstep and insists that they are meant to be friends?Meatspace is a hilarious and troubling analysis of what happens when our lives become nothing more than an aggregation of shared content, when our online personas are more interesting than real life. A brilliant follow-up from an acclaimed young novelist writing at the sharp edge of modern life.
Meatspace, by Nikesh Shukla- Amazon Sales Rank: #787390 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-07-03
- Released on: 2014-07-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review 'Like Douglas Coupland's Generation X, this novel captures a cultural moment' - Guardian 'An anarchic, self-involved and admirably honest portrait of a bookish life lived in the brave new digital world' - New Statesman 'Chilling' - Observer 'Buzzing with streetwise smarts and satirical barbs, it's a thoughtful, often hilarious, meditation on a young writer's loneliness in the digital age' - Independent on Sunday 'Brilliant stuff ' - Londonist 'Hilarious and disturbing' - Stylist 'Meatspace is funny. Damn funny. You should really switch off your computer and read it' - Matt Haig, author of The Humans 'Meatspace is the greatest book on loneliness since The Catcher in the Rye' - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story 'Totally original and funny and humane' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with The Topknot 'Meatspace is, simply, one of the finest novels I have ever read about modern life and modern living. Douglas Coupland, Junot Diaz, Chuck Palahniuk and Jennifer Egan: stick them in a blendr, and out comes this amazing new novel by one of the UK's most distinct voices' - James Smythe, author of The Machine
About the Author Nikesh Shukla is a writer of fiction and television and host of the Subaltern podcast. His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. Meatspace is his second novel.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Behind a Screen to IRL By Making Good Stories Tweets, retweets, status updates, likes, and sharing all at the tap of a button. In a world of online interactions, we are all bodily removed from other people while simultaneously connected to them and apprised of their every action. So what becomes of the real world? That space is also the title of Nikesh Shukla's novel, Meatspace, which is fraught with consequences for both digital and physical actions.Kitab is a new author whose first book was recently released, but he's had a series of unfortunate events in his life that have him in a downward spiral of depression and digital reliance. Fired for writing his book at work, struggling with book sales, and his girlfriend leaving him drives Kitab to spending his time in his flat with his brother/roommate Aziz. While googling random things online, Aziz and Kitab decide to get tattoos and also stumble upon their doppelgangers. Interacting with doppelgangers online is one thing, but once confronted in meatspace, their lives get interesting in a way that doesn't translate well in the nebulous digital ether and causes confusion for all involved.The narrative is eerily resonate with contemporary audiences who seem to be solely driven by their online personas and status (and it's times like these that I wholeheartedly embrace my lack of a smartphone to stay "connected" 24/7). The story developed quite naturally, at least until the ultimate intervention that leads Kitab to reevaluate his life; they way that the confrontation occurs felt as if it was plopped down as the story needed to get wrapped up. The confrontation and reveal of the psychological aspect of the narrative could have happened a bit more organically than Kitab's ex-girlfriend and father suddenly showing up at his flat. Similarly, the aftermath could have been rather interesting to explore further. In the book's structure, the alternating perspectives offered by Aziz's blog and Kitab's narration was enjoyable and demonstrated the two sides of the screen in online life, trolls and all.Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Aspects of Angels and Devils – Discuss By Dorcas Rosina Kitab Balasubramanyam has a problem with technology. He can’t leave it alone. He fills voids in his life with social media. But social media cannot teach you social mores.This novel put me in mind of a Greco-Roman tragedy. Family is everything, nothing. Modern times: self fights technology. There is crossover, there is confusion.The protagonist has an angel and a devil in his life. Both have aspects of the other entity. At first I was fighting through the crude ‘dudes’ and endless ‘cools’. I’m not sure at which point I realised this was a cunning book, that Shukla was dealing us a deck of selves. Teaching his readers a few lessons in life, should they wish to seek them out and learn from them.The humor in the book is Shukla’s perverse perceptions of the behavior of others, added to the maleness of the plot, giving the slightly unwashed sense of a teenage bedroom. You can read his words and recognize all that is wrong in your own tech-obsessed life. Smirk at the similarities with his characters, or you can look behind to the complexities of human relationships that will always exist, be you Bacchus or Balasubramanyam.I enjoyed it. It was worthwhile to read something different.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Like the main character- trying so hard to be cool. By Jeanie Chang Eh. This book sounded interesting, but it was just bad. The way these characters thought and spoke was so vapid and shallow. I couldn't even bare to read the whole thing and just skimmed the last third of the book. It tries to be commentary about social media, but only managed to caricature it. It's trying too hard to be cool like Fight Club and lacks sincerity.
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