So I picked this one up thinking that I was addicted to Twitter. Oddly, I thought the book would help me out. In a sense it has. I realised I wasn't addicted at all, and that there are people who have it far worse than me! There are laughs along the way and familiar characters, but this was something and nothing. It is clear that I am one of the many kinds of Twitter users that Grace Dent can't stand. But it doesn't matter. This book made me glad I never tried Twitter. I thought checking Facebook a few times a day was excessive. But there are actually people in the world--lots of them--who sit on the couch watching TV and tweet to the world at large about the program. I suddenly feel like I have a life.I found this book hard to read. Partly this was because, not having used Twitter, I'm unfamiliar with any of the terminology--and there is a LOT of terminology. But I also think the author finds her own boisterous incoherence quite charming, and people seem to agree because she has oodles of followers. Here's a typical sentence, chosen at random: "If you're a Mac user, you may have to endure a little pre-assistance whining about your decision to buy an Apple product when you could have bought a much uglier, joyless, sludge-coloured product which didn't sync with anything for MUCH LESS MONEY, but, hey, just bite your lip and keep smiling." Um, what? Am I the only one who had to read that sentence three times to figure out what it said? And one incoherent sentence is forgivable, but an entire book full of them is exhausting.And I was also expecting more of a narrative. A book should have a point. A book called "How to Leave Twitter" would imply that there was a progression of sorts: the author joined Twitter, the author soured on Twitter, the author left Twitter. But no, this book just meanders through examples of things that happen on Twitter that the author thinks are relevant or funny.People who use Twitter will probably "get" this and like it. I thought it was rather meh.
What do You think about How To Leave Twitter (2011)?
Funny book , Everything that's a not to do on twitter I do !!
—pretty22626
Nice easy read from a very funny writer and journalist
—toleybhushan
