The Echo Chamber: John Boyne

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Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian ― The Observer --This text refers to the paperback edition.

They try to navigate the online world of political correctness, trying to boost their followers and fame. Meet The Cleverley Family - they are wealthy, have everything that could possibly want in life and are in the limelight. Daughter Elizabeth and her Boyfriend Wilkes are used to showcase virtue-signalling and the ethics of using good deeds for social media likes, Son Achilles is used to demonstrate internet scamming and George's character gets 'cancelled' on social media. It’s never quite clear whether George was thoughtless or deliberately set out to offend (although there was a conversation shortly before said tweet which leads the reader to infer he knew what he was doing). This book just felt like John Boyne got annoyed he was targeted on twitter for his wrongdoings and thinks by taking the mick out of them, he's going to regain some personal pride or something.Bestseller and was adapted for a feature film, a play, a ballet and an opera, selling around 11 million copies worldwide. I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I also know that this book comes from the author's own experience after writing his book "My Brother's name is Jessica" and getting lots of hate back then. The Cleverley family are all characters created at the extremes of plausibility but they keep connected to the reader at all times.

Seems he has drawn on his inner snarkiness to give us a tale about the ridiculous of our social media addicted society. Today we live our lives online - photos, thoughts and opinions are all out there for all to see and judge.When George tweets something meaning to sound supportive of a person transitioning from male to female, he botches it so badly that he is hauled over the coals by his boss, the Head of Entertainment, Margaret. Browsing the new release shelf at the library I stumbled upon it and after reading the summary checked it out.

JB is astute, with a deep understanding of plot, themes, characters and relationships, so from the beginning, when you encounter awful characters – no, I mean horrible characters and unbelievable scenarios. The main protagonists in The Echo Chamber though, are awful people, completely narcissistic, unsympathetic, downright nasty, though it does make them all wickedly interesting, whilst at the same time, makes for some truly amusing dialogue. My 14th adult novel, ALL THE BROKEN PLACES, a sequel and companion novel to THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, will be published in the UK on September 15th 2022, in the US and Canada on November 29th, and in many foreign language editions in late 2022 and 2023.They are very hateable but at the same time you see all these other parts of them that are actually good or misinformed or clueless.