Age of Earthquakes Blog Post

The Age of Overload

The Age of Earthquakes is an interesting read which despite its outer shell of sarcasm and images is deeply analytical and thought out. It uses irony and repetition to make it seem like you are reading a simple book, but in reality it is a deep, complex book that speaks a lot on current issues. The line “Your blog is now one of seven million blogs” (98) stands out as interesting in this situation. The exaggeration and the font used in the book for this line make this seem funny or not so serious, but it is actually speaking about the subject of unoriginality and the difficulty to be unique in an increasingly homogeneous world, hence the irony. As if this quote isn’t ironic enough, it itself is being written about in a blog. The irony is important because it talks about these deep subjects while still feeling like a light read to keep readers interested. The brevity is also a comment on how nowadays the average person’s attention span (especially with books) is getting shorter and shorter. Also, the background of this very same page is marked repetitively with the same line; “You have (number) new messages.”(98) The repetitiveness of this this line is also a comment on how we can’t even focus on what we are reading and we are always distracted by technology and social media no matter what we are doing. The topics spoken about in this book are interesting and the irony and repetition show how much deeper this book is than seen on the surface.