Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters, (Paperback)

from nmele

It is a shame that the important, true things that Lee Siegel argues in this book are obscured by his all out attack on the Internet's down side which does not recognize that for every rude, self-serving, ill-informed blog there is a reasoned opinion elsewhere on line; for every source of misinfo...

from madcurrin

My recommendation is that you pick up this book and start reading from Chapter 8, Being There. This final section of Lee Siegel's book encapsulates his argument in a nutshell. It is thought provoking and important. I nearly didn't make it to the final chapters. Most of the book up to that point j...

from ambookgeek

My review would be very much the same as mcur's below though I don't think, as mcur does, that the final chapter does enough to overcome the weaknesses of the bulk of the piece. Siegel makes many assertions about society and culture, but he supports his assertions with weak reasoning and little e...

from beljunk

Lacks critical thinking. Author is too envious and vidictive of others who think more globally and clearly than he does. The good points that he makes have already been made by other authors, and done so with more wisdom and intelligence.

from Aetatis

Excellent although brief overview of the impact of the Web. This is just the beginning--or possibly the middle--of the books that will be written about the early days of the World Wide Web (1995 forward).