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The Future According To Me (Kindle Single) (2000)

by Rob Kutner(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: This book read exactly like what I suspect it was - a last-minute, half-assed attempt to make some cash by cobbling together a promotional item for Amazon.I can honestly say that not one of these "possible futures" seemed inspiring, creative, or capable of causing consideration of new ideas. I also recall that the vast majority of attempts at humor ended up as ineffective attempts to bolster the unchanging mechanism of future irony; this is evidenced by the very first scenario presented in which we experience an ironic bout of global cooling due to overcompensation. Wow - so creative. Surely no one's made that joke before.I can picture it now: the author looks around the room frantically. "I still need seventeen more scenarios... let's check the front page of Yahoo! News... more for ideas. Hey, an article about ADD - that'll work! Oh, and I haven't used overpopulation yet; that can be at least six chapters if I stretch it out enough! This is easy!"Two hours later, he was finished. Brevity is not synonymous with wit, but fortunately for Mr. Kutner and Amazon, there are apparently plenty of folks who don't know the difference.
review 2: This is a perfect example of why I love Kindle Singles. Sometimes I want to read something that's not a novel or novella, not a short story, not even a short-short. It's thirty vignettes speculating (quite hilariously) on the the state of the future. I don't think there was a single one that missed the mark or felt flat and unfunny. My favorites were "The Sizable Bang" and "Two-state Solution." less

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