Age of Earthquakes Blog

The Age of Earthquakes is a book with many interesting concepts and significant questions posed against the modern era.  Its unique writing style and fast pace creates an intriguing argument as the book delves into the current problems involving relationships and the use of technology.  For example, the books focus on how technology has affected emotional health and socializing through various satirical images or phrases. The idea that we are increasingly easily connected to one another by technology, while at the same time technology is pushing us increasingly further from each other in terms of real relationships was something I felt was true for our time.  In the text there are many interesting ideas like this and the text has many intriguing concepts, but the structure of the book is something that hurts these ideas.

Overall the topics discussed within the text have real intellectual value, however, the text has a lacking of explanation or in depth study.  The text struggles to maintain one concurrent question in mind, rather the text mentions a interesting idea and then discards it for some new topic.  For example, the beginning of the novel and even the name of the text, The Age of Earthquakes, have some connection to the environment.  At one point the within the introduction of the text a claim is made that the earthquake in Japan in 2011 was not a coincidence, and that we are changing the structure of our planet.  This is an interesting claim made for the beginning of the book as the rest of the text never seems to ever come back to its initial claim. This is something I personally feels hurts the book and its message, overall being too willing to drop ideas and jump around between topics without explanation of a connection.

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