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Spreadsheet Tyrants
Spreadsheet Tyrants is a brilliant satire of an America set five minutes in the future and just one step further to the right. The year is 2020: President Donald Drumpf is campaigning for his second term as President, a severe drought is forcing citizens to evacuate from the heartland, and the government is forced to rely on a Kickstarter camping to combat a deadly pandemic because the FDA, EPA, and CDC were all shuttered within President Drumpf's first 100 days in office. Eh, but it's not all bad news! Wi-fi is faster than it's ever been and Michael Baye is filming a new adaptation of...Hamlet? Oh boy. Put on a sturdy pair of boots and prepare to explore the rusted, collapsing, graffiti covered landscape of a nation that is an oligarchy is all but name and where freedom has been rebranded, repackaged and fun-sized by your friendly Corporate Overlords. Pull back the tattered curtain and peer through the broken window, if you dare dear reader, and bear witness to an outlandish America that is both laugh-out-loud ridiculous and unnerving similar to our own. But hope is not lost in this strange new world because the working class just got a brand new set of champions and defenders. But will their "cure" for out-of-control capitalism be worse than the disease? There’s only one way to find out!
189 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2015
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July 11, 2016
Very fun and entertaining. Brilliant Satire
Q: Any final thoughts?
A: Kindness is the ultimate act of defiance. If you're reading this, you are the resistance.
Q: Any final thoughts?
A: Kindness is the ultimate act of defiance. If you're reading this, you are the resistance.
June 27, 2016
I wanted to hate this book, but the first third was pretty engaging and I thought I might like it.
Nope, my first impression was right. This "book" would have been much better as a well-edited short story. It contained at least three parallel storylines, but in the end only finished one of them. What the hell happened to the other characters? Some may argue that it's part of the satire - that we'll never know because only the wealthy and famous make headlines - but that's a shitty excuse for not finishing the damned book.
Regardless, there are some good jumping-off points for a book club discussion. But as satire goes, it's no "Modest Proposal."
Nope, my first impression was right. This "book" would have been much better as a well-edited short story. It contained at least three parallel storylines, but in the end only finished one of them. What the hell happened to the other characters? Some may argue that it's part of the satire - that we'll never know because only the wealthy and famous make headlines - but that's a shitty excuse for not finishing the damned book.
Regardless, there are some good jumping-off points for a book club discussion. But as satire goes, it's no "Modest Proposal."
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