Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler's The Future of Us is set in 1996 and is the story of friends Josh and Emma. When Emma installs an AOL CD onto her new computer, she is logged onto her Facebook profile instead. Emma and Josh's Facebook profiles show what their lives will be like in fifteen years. Howev...
I don't know why, but I loved this one. Like, couldn't-put-it-down, read-it-everywhere loved. The characters were vapid, but something about this just clicked for me.
Logging on to your future Facebook account, 15 years ago? Now that would have been interesting! This is what happens to Josh and Emma after Emma gets her first computer in 1996.Growing up in the 90s, I got a real nostalgic feeling while reading this. Talk of Walkmans, VCRs and scrunchies was simply ...
If there was a device or a program that would let you give a preview of what your life would be 15 years from now, would you try it out?Would you really like to know how life has turned out for you and the people around you?When you find out that your life after 15 years sucks, would you try and cha...
The Future of Us is completely different from anything I've ever read. This was my first taste of anything even remotely like time-travel and I loved it. My favorite part was definitely the descriptions of the AOL start-up. While I wasn't as old as Josh and Emma were in the nineties, I still reme...
Originally published at my blog Chasing Empty PavementsThis was a pretty quick and enjoyable read with a very interesting concept. I love that what we perceive as normal now (Facebook) would be totally weird back in the 90's. And what would you do if you logged onto an ancient computer (although its...
Highly unlikeable and unsympathetic female protagonist who lacked the ability to apologize or see her own flaws made the second half of the book almost unbearable. When she finally did see the error of her ways the character was beyond any hope of redemption, plus her eureka moment came on too sudde...
THE FUTURE OF US had a premise so kickass that I knew I needed to read it; through a weird glitch in a 1996 AOL CD, Josh and Emma stumble across their facebook pages, 15 years in the future. Emma, unhappy with what she finds, starts messing with the present to change the future.I sort of felt like t...
This book was a little young for me, but I did end liking the book.However, I am the type of girl who NEEDS an epilogue. Call me silly, but I just felt like we had been seeing their future and then when you most want to know what happens next. Nada. That kind of left me a little sad. Not going to li...
This book is different. In 1996 Emma's dad buys her a new computer as a sort of "guilt" gift. Josh gives her an AOL disc that his mother got in the mail. She loads it and so begins their look into the future. When Emma logs on something called Facebook pops up, but everything on it is 15 years i...
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