The Age of Earthquakes is not an ordinary novel. It doesn’t follow the usual plot diagram of many other novels. Instead, it trades this format for something more fluid, utilizing pictures and a combination between facts and ideas to create and expository body of work that aims to enlighten the populace about the lives we live now and the possible path we’re on headed into the future. I truly find this book interesting, especially the captivating imagery created by both the diction and pictures used. The authors, I assume, had pages where it was just a picture, no words whatsoever. And I believe this was done to make the reader focus on what makes that image so impactful that it requires no words. I appreciate this, because it further supports their argument of slowing down and looking around at our dependence on technology and how if we keep pushing and pushing the limits of technology, we lose track of the little things and actually focusing. I do, however, question what pushed the authors to get together to create this body of work. Was it the desire to express their ideas and hopefully start or support a movement? Or maybe they just wanted a stage to expose the truths that they feel are relevant, give their opinion on them, and display it to the world to just learn? No matter their reason, I enjoyed making connections between the information that the book presented and my own life. Even though I read through the book very quickly, and probably didn’t focus nearly as much as I should have, making me reread the text and take a minute to look around at the influence technology truly has on me and to what effect it makes my life easier or more difficult at times.
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