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Unverified: A Romantic Comedy of Errors for the Social Media Age
Sadie loves to have the best of everything, and she and Dylan have been flirting over social media. When Dylan decides he wants to ask her out, he turns to their mutual acquaintance, Randal, for help. Randal spots a small Sadie won't like Dylan because he's an dishonest, smug, unpleasant, unemployed, cynical coward. Dylan says it's fine - as long as she doesn't find out. Read the rest in A Romantic Comedy of Errors for the Social Media Age, from the very wrongly termed "mind" of author Andrew Stanek.
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192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 4, 2019
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February 25, 2020
Dylan lived a life of failure and had a mad crush on this girl. Maybe he could throw a party just to get her to notice him.
Everyone hated Dylan, who loves hate. What a strange weirdo. He’s a sociopath that stopped using social media but was still on it.
“Social media is like a broken mirror. It doesn’t show me as I am, and it’s brought me 7 years of bad luck.” (LOC 98)
Why would any girl like Dylan? He was “a dishonest, smug, unpleasant, unemployed coward.” Dylan is so cynical and self-deprecating, flaunting it with refreshing wit and laughable irony. (For ex: “I’m seeking my fortune, I just wish it would stop hiding.”)
Really, the whole group of friends is whacked. It’s easy to get into these characters’ affairs. They’re so used to chatting online that they never really learned to talk to people. They were “more at ease over the internet and more awkward in real life.” (LOC 260)
Misunderstandings and chaos at their social gathering. People are jealous and crushing on each other. They were such deviants with wanting to break each other up through trickery, lies, and deceit. How were they even friends?
Interesting read overall. It was fun to see the mess they get into. Dylan was infuriating as hell, but funny, too! Sadie was just a psycho! Heather is a jealous freak. Tom was a pompous, walking news reel.
Everyone hated Dylan, who loves hate. What a strange weirdo. He’s a sociopath that stopped using social media but was still on it.
“Social media is like a broken mirror. It doesn’t show me as I am, and it’s brought me 7 years of bad luck.” (LOC 98)
Why would any girl like Dylan? He was “a dishonest, smug, unpleasant, unemployed coward.” Dylan is so cynical and self-deprecating, flaunting it with refreshing wit and laughable irony. (For ex: “I’m seeking my fortune, I just wish it would stop hiding.”)
Really, the whole group of friends is whacked. It’s easy to get into these characters’ affairs. They’re so used to chatting online that they never really learned to talk to people. They were “more at ease over the internet and more awkward in real life.” (LOC 260)
Misunderstandings and chaos at their social gathering. People are jealous and crushing on each other. They were such deviants with wanting to break each other up through trickery, lies, and deceit. How were they even friends?
Interesting read overall. It was fun to see the mess they get into. Dylan was infuriating as hell, but funny, too! Sadie was just a psycho! Heather is a jealous freak. Tom was a pompous, walking news reel.
January 18, 2020
Very Funny and Nice Change of Pace
I like all of the other books by Andrew Stanek I've read, and I like this one too. I whined about there not being many women characters in flat earth or the you are dead series and i feel ive been listened to because thia book has a nice half and half ration. Even better the women are as funny as the men, which is something male comedy writers of previous generations just absolutely struggled with but the current crop can be pretty adept at when they make an effort. My one quibble is i think this is more of a screwball comedy then a romcom but with the current plummeting literacy rate i dont expect many people know the difference and romcom might have just been used so readers arent scared off. The socratic dialogue aspect of the book was a nice surprise as someone who is a huge nerd and likes that sort of thing. Some more descriptions might have been nice, sometimes when coming back to the book after taking a long break it could be tricky to remember who is who. But maybe that would have screwed up the pacing, so who knows.
Great read.
I like all of the other books by Andrew Stanek I've read, and I like this one too. I whined about there not being many women characters in flat earth or the you are dead series and i feel ive been listened to because thia book has a nice half and half ration. Even better the women are as funny as the men, which is something male comedy writers of previous generations just absolutely struggled with but the current crop can be pretty adept at when they make an effort. My one quibble is i think this is more of a screwball comedy then a romcom but with the current plummeting literacy rate i dont expect many people know the difference and romcom might have just been used so readers arent scared off. The socratic dialogue aspect of the book was a nice surprise as someone who is a huge nerd and likes that sort of thing. Some more descriptions might have been nice, sometimes when coming back to the book after taking a long break it could be tricky to remember who is who. But maybe that would have screwed up the pacing, so who knows.
Great read.
May 7, 2019
Absolutely hilarious satire!
Although short, this satirical look at privacy (both online and in real life) was supremely entertaining.
I was only a page or so in when I laughing heartily. It really was that funny. The character Dylan with his... unusual one liners was the best part of the book for me. Speaking of the characters, everybody in it was a self absorbed psychopath (except maybe Tom). Their misunderstandings and subsequent retaliations for these perceived slights made for an enthralling plot.
This would actually make a great play if someone were to adapt it.
The only part I didn't love was the summation at the end. I felt the satire worked well on it's own and didn't need to be outright stated.
Otherwise this really was a fantastically enjoyable that really brightened my day!
Although short, this satirical look at privacy (both online and in real life) was supremely entertaining.
I was only a page or so in when I laughing heartily. It really was that funny. The character Dylan with his... unusual one liners was the best part of the book for me. Speaking of the characters, everybody in it was a self absorbed psychopath (except maybe Tom). Their misunderstandings and subsequent retaliations for these perceived slights made for an enthralling plot.
This would actually make a great play if someone were to adapt it.
The only part I didn't love was the summation at the end. I felt the satire worked well on it's own and didn't need to be outright stated.
Otherwise this really was a fantastically enjoyable that really brightened my day!
December 29, 2019
I did not finish this one. I see what the author's purpose was, and I do enjoy traditional comedies of manners. There were, however, in the first half of this book, no likable characters. The characters were rather extreme, all of them, with very little middle ground. I started to get annoyed with every single character jumping to conclusions instead of actually saying what s/he really meant to anyone else.
June 20, 2019
This book was amazing. It easily could be turned into a hilarious stage play as everything took place for the most part in one house over the course of an evening. All the characters were believable and extreme at the same time. Stanek did an amazing job of putting all the fears and complexities of social media and the internet out on the table for everyone to see. I loved every minute of it.
December 1, 2020
Different to the authors normal books but still as funny and as enjoyable
December 8, 2020
Very annoying
Sorry but I found this story annoying and although I did finish
it, I much prefer the authors other books.
Sorry but I found this story annoying and although I did finish
it, I much prefer the authors other books.
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