My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book more, but I could just never get there. Perhaps it struggled in comparison to books I had just finished that also discussed the Internet, both of which I found incredible.
That said, Heffernan's work was distinctly different than those. Those books discussed the impact of the Internet on our minds, our world, our economics, and so on. "Magic and Loss," I though, was to be about the Internet itself, its design - its beauty, its ugliness, its feel, its emotional power. And while it discusses the idea, I simply had trouble following the writing. The chapters, and the segments in the chapter, simply felt disconnected to me. The language Heffernan writes her prose in was beautiful, but I just could never seemingly connect the sections together, and that made the book fall a little short for me.
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