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Echo Chamber, The

Boyne, John

  20 Reviews

The Cleverleys are the perfect family you love to hate. At first glance, successful and influential and at second glance, well... not quite. George is an obnoxious BBC radio host and Beverley, a romance writer, is a snob of the highest order. And then there are their three adult children, Nelson, Elizabeth and Achilles.

When Elizabeth's latest desperate attempt to be a social media influencer goes awry there is chaos, and as the family's lives unravel, readers have a front row seat to a world controlled by social media.

A thought-provoking and satirical delight.

Pages
420
Year
2021

Reviews

RICH 017
06-03-2024
Interesting! Some of us (majority) found it a tricky read. Knowing it is satire does help, but the lack of likeable characters made it less enjoyable. We did have great chats about social media and cancel culture.
OPOTI 003
29-02-2024
This book generated a really good discussion. It was enlightening, none of us being avid social media users. We all very much enjoyed the excellent writing. We'd really recommend this to other book groups.
HURUN 001
28-02-2024
We all enjoyed this book very much, resulting in a lively discussion.
GREYT 001
17-01-2024
Mixed reaction to this book. Very funny in parts but dragged in the middle - quite an eye opener to those who don't use social media. We all wish we had read the notes before the book as we didn't know about Boyne's trouble re 'My Brother's Name is Jessica'. Perhaps that would have made his reaction more understandable.
RAUM 001
22-11-2023
Very funny, verging on farce. Made us look twice at our experience of social media.
TAKA 001
10-10-2023
Several of the group loved it and thought it was a great send-up of social media and its dangers. It was thought of as a clever book with interesting names like Cleverly etc. Another good John Boyne book.
WAIKA 012
16-08-2023
Entertaining. easy to read. Very contemporary theme.
MATUA 001
07-08-2023
Half the group enjoyed the book and the other half were irritated by it!
QUEEN 003
07-08-2023
Most members initially thought they wouldn't like this . Awful characters, every one of them, with few redeeming features. However it became a good commentary on modern life - use of social media, cancelling, political correctness, wokeness - all alive and well in N.Z. Trial by social media is real and is happening everywhere. Very funny book, almost farcical, but also serious. What of the future
MOTUE 003
10-07-2023
There were mixed reactions to this book. Two started but didn't finish, while four found it a worthwhile read. It certainly stimulated a lot of discussion.
WELL 093
23-06-2023
Made us laugh out loud!
AUCK 230
19-06-2023
Very accurate comment on social media in our current world!
AUCK 458
07-06-2023
Thoroughly enjoyable, funny, provocative about the power of social media and things that influence us, makes you think! Liked the characters with all their flaws.
CHCH 299
06-06-2023
Most enjoyed it, some loved it, one didn't finish - those who loved/liked it enjoyed the humour and found it a fast-paced clever read. It was also a good discussion book as it raised lots of divergent opinions.
TAUM 003
22-05-2023
Probably our best book of the year - a brilliant satire, felt like reading 21st century Jane Austen.
WANG 004
11-05-2023
Some of our group found this outrageous and funny verging on black humour. It was obviously a satire based on our ridiculous society addicted to social media. Our members thought it best to have read the notes first to understand why the author wrote the book. Some of our group disliked the book for its graphic content.
ASHB 028
30-03-2023
Varying reactions to this book amongst our group. Some appreciated the humour, all considered the ending rather weak.
MATAM 001
23-03-2023
We all enjoyed 'The Echo Chamber' as a very clever satire of a family's various connections to social media, and the catastrophic consequences for the five people when everything goes wrong. A timely warning for us all, on the negative consequences of a distorted life in social media, plus the damage done to impressionable young people.
WAIHEK 001
20-03-2023
Very mixed opinions. Too long with rather a lot of social media content. The humour was not a high point. We have enjoyed other books by this author.
ALEXA 012
08-11-2022
Some of us loved it (mainly the British people!) but some didn't finish it, or thought it fizzled out a bit towards the end. Very funny and interesting commentary on current times, but full of specific references which some of the group wouldn't get.