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Book review - The Store by James Patterson.
The Store, James Patterson, Penguin Random House, ISBN: 9781 7808 95345
IMAGINE there’s a giant, international online retailer that suggests products based on your likes and browsing history?
They’re watching you.
The Store is 259 pages of uncomfortable.
JP’s writing is flawless, as always, and the plot is hauntingly close to today’s technology zombies – the humans of today.
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The chapters are no longer than five pages. It’s as if Patterson had a lightbulb idea at 3am, jotted it down and then printed this the next day, with large chapter headings.
He forced a full-length novel out of air, really.
Jacob and Megan Brandeis are writers and are becoming more and more suspicious of the online retailer taking over their world.
Deliveries and products are being pre-empted. The corporation controls everything from the products to the pricing.
The colossus is an online dictator. How do they know? How. Do. They. Know?
Jacob delves deep into the large conglomerate and is shocked and horrified at his findings.
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Privacy is slowly being disregarded and human rights are being pushed down on the moral ladder to make way for larger sales and knowledge.
We’re all thinking the same thinking, it’s Amazon.
But I’m assuming the point JP was trying to get across was to take a step back as a consumer and look, really look at your world.
Take a look at your privacy and be aware. He could have ended the book there.
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