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Wired Love: A Romance Of Dots And Dashes (2000)

by Ella Cheever Thayer(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: The version I read was free through the google play store. This was a light, entertaining read. The setting and plot is fun, and it started out pretty well. Almost all of the characters are insufferable though, and every single male character unreasonable. None of them know when to back off, or how to accept 'no' or 'not interested' no matter how many times it is said. I really enjoyed the close friendship formed between Cyn and Nattie, and that their support of each other is prevalent throughout the book. After a point in the story, though, everyone just stops being able to communicate effectively like actual adults. This makes the second half of the book increasingly frustrating to read and rapidly whittled down the likable members of the cast to one or two. This bo... moreok wasn't particularly awful, but it is a lot like eating M&Ms. You get them because you think they'll taste good, and they do, but after eating them for a bit they start to taste a little gross.
review 2: I believe this could very well be the first "Internet Romance" novel ever written!!! Published in 1880, it describes the romance between two telegraph operators: Nellie and an operator known only to her as "C". Our heroine is a young woman just gaining her independence and earning her way in a very male dominated field of work. Through a bit of serendipity, our protagonist meets "on the wire", the object of her growing affections,an unseen male operator in a distant town, who she becomes ever more enamored with while sending a receiving short messages between her one woman station and "C"'s remote outpost station some 70 miles distant. Neither of them have much hope of ever seeing each other due to the distances between them in a pre-automobile age but they slowly come to build a friendship that becomes something more than either ever expected. There is an interesting cast of secondary characters that adds depth and no small amount of humor (in a very 19th century vein...). The descriptions of life, love and customs of society at that time, as well as the limits of technology are very evident in the story. The author was in fact herself a telegraph operator as well as a writer so we get to hear in some authoritative detail about the work involved and descriptions of the equipment and the limits imposed on those who use it which adds a bit of authenticity to many situations. The only warnings I would issue to potential readers is that it is not a quick, easy read as the language is a bit archaic (not in a Shakespearean way mind you) and arcane, but still understandable for the most part. Most of the differences are in how sentences are structured and in word usage. The vocabulary can be a bit of a challenge too as some words used in this story mean something very different today. It is a story written by a woman of that time describing romance in a way that is decidedly more gentile and proper than the "bodice rippers"one finds on the book racks in the local supermarkets today. less

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