Several People Are Typing

I've never used slack and I am def not the target audience but this was a quick and easy read. I never bought into the notion that the main character was trapped inside a virtual environment but there was some lampooning of office culture and the uselessness of bots that amused me. Ultimately, I think the book is hindered by the choice of format.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for review.

That was such a fun format but while reading it I found myself wanting to :dustystick: react while I don't even use Slack.

This book was excellent. Such a quick read and so enjoyable. Like welcome to night vale and every office I've ever worked in had a baby.

Not only is it funny, but it's also sweet. Very touching and reflective in some of the more existential moments. Truly a delight.

Awful book. Three lines were funny out of the whole thing. The rest was a slog, impossible to read enjoyably when text of emojis are constantly-mid sentence, and just awful. The fact that someone in the publishing world thought this thing was worthy of their time is a blight on society. If you read this book, that is 2-hours of your life you will never get back. Ever.

OHHH MY GOD i can't lie i was skeptical but this was so funny and i was not expecting it to be gay

This was... not good. I hate leaving 1-star reviews but this was hard to get through. The only reason I finished it is because there are often 16 lines of text on a page, even then time dragged.

I get what the author was going for, and I am accustomed to reading different writing styles but this book seemed a mess. Not much direction, not many laughs. Where was the humour we were promised? I laughed 5 times. 5 short abrupt laughs that didn't linger. I counted.

The story would tease you with storylines that went nowhere.

I'm actually quite pissed off I stuck with this book. I got it. I just didn't like it.

I had one of the best times reading this book. It was weird, funny, creepy, existential, and reflective. I was confused most of the time, but in the best way possible. It also satisfied a voyeuristic desire to see people's DMs and get a 360 view of all the office gossip. :dusty-stick: for me. This was a very quick read that felt corporate-core, but in a satirical way. It gave me a similar vibe to Horrorstör in terms of interweaving the social commentary into the mysterious narrative. I did not expect to like it this much.

“We love to say the digital is fleeting like a concept but these scraps of ourselves we fling into the ether will outlive most of us, like the sun”

Slack Tron Inception!
I am surprised this worked as an audiobook.
Very entertaining 3-hour long listen for slack-nerds.

incorrect use of the :eyes: emoji drove me up the wall. I've also read fanfiction that does this concept (both the “stuck in a computer” and the “story told entirely thru internet chat”) better, so there's that.

About halfway through I was very impressed - sure it's gimmicky, but the characters were fun, the chat was extremely relatable, and the idea was being executed in an engaging way - but as it reached the end it felt like the limitations of the conceit started strangling the potential of the story.

Worth checking out for a fun light read.

very weird but funny and bonus points for being gay

This was so messed up, in the best way, and I laughed out loud several times. And I finished in under 24 hours, which is saying something these days. (I mean, it's written entirely in Slack conversations, so it's a quick read too, but it was just really ENJOYABLE. I wanted to keep sitting and keep reading.)

Focused on the constant Slack conversations of a small office and its staff, who are dealing with a client that's going through a PR crisis, when one of the employees get slurped into the Slack app. And his body is just like, THERE, atrophying until someone is like, maybe we should check on this guy who claims he's stuck in Slack? Like many offices, it's highly dysfunctional, with a cast of characters who are altogether much too up-in-each-others' business. I suppose it could also be considered a little bit horror-lite, but more in an absurdist suspense way than actual scary stuff-that-could-happen-to-you kind of way.

It was a lot of fun. Recommend!!