The Ugly Truth: An addictive and explosive thriller about the dark side of fame

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Jeff Kinney said in a tweet that he was going to call this book "Rowley's Revenge", and the cover had Greg trying to get out of the sewer by opening the cover, but Rowley stomps on the cover, hurting Greg. [1] While reading you get both sides of the story and I truly did not know who I believed. All aspects of Melanie's life are recounted twice, by both her father and her friend and ex-husband and so you never know who is telling the truth. It is not until you start reading Melanie's secret diary that the truth starts to reveal itself. I LOVED this book so much, I devoured it in two sittings. I had to know what happened next. I found it fresh, exciting, and extremely addictive.

Frank and Susan are revealed to have been "late bloomers" when it came to puberty and figure that Greg will probably end up starting puberty a little later than most other boys his age. Frank also claims that if Greg's anything like him, he probably won't grow that much facial hair when he's older -- Frank explains to his son that, despite being a grown man, he himself really only ends up needing to shave once or twice a week. It's surprising just how boring I found this to be actually, given that I usually love the dynamic pacing of mixed media formats-- short "chapters" of interviews, journal entries, video transcripts and tweets --but it was a snooze. We are taken through Melanie's rise to fame, subsequent media hounding and depiction in the media as a bad girl stumbling out of clubs (very mid-2000s Britney) and the interview format distances the reader from the events taking place in a way similar to how I felt about Daisy Jones & The Six.Facebook threw ‘a lit match on to decades of simmering racial tension’ in Myanmar... Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in 2017. Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters A company, Cambridge Analytica, used online surveys through the Facebook app to gather personal information about millions of US users before the 2016 election. This information, which was not sold nor available to the public, was weaponized and turned into targeted political ads. The Facebook algorithms favour negative news as they produce more engagement. Tests were done on users, one group received more positive news while another received more negative news. The ones that received the negative news, fake news and conspiracy theories became more engaged and stayed more on the platform. The problem is highlighted in the chapters on "monstrosities", and "ugliness". Eco describes the medieval fascination with representations of devilish monsters and the pangs of hellfire, and argues that centuries of aesthetic theory presented ugliness as the antithesis of beauty, that the moral significance of ugliness lies in being a fundamental strand of a complex universe. I am leaving facebook. The contents of the book have sank in fully and the scales have tipped to the leap side. I was an early adopter of the internet and social media and now I will be an early adopter of a facebook-less life. Early, because I think it's a movement going on. Uncontrolled growth in cells is cancer - lethal. I wonder what uncontrolled growth does to a "social" media platform, the people on it and the people who are not even on it at all. I'm not the only one leaping. I find myself in good company of artists, musicians, readers and thinkers who also dare ask themselves some questions.

As a result, the Heffley men must take care of themselves, and most stability falls apart. Food is often ruined, and since Susan usually does the chores around the house, Greg is left with little clean clothes to wear. ... I loved the inclusion of social media and the public’s perception of what is going on. How mass thought can influence and sway opinions. The formatting showing interviews for a documentary means you get to hear from both sides and everyone involved. Told through interviews, transcripts and tweets, the format of the story was unexpected and difficult to build an attention-grabbing narrative in a reader’s mind. Jumping from interview to interview felt disjointed and like you never really got to know any of the cast of characters in much detail. I found it difficult to get into this at first. I think it was the way it was written in interview transcripts, online blogs, diary entries, etc - it's a different way to tell the narrative but I think it can put the reader at arm's length from the characters. I did find that this dissipated the more I read & as the plot progressed, by halfway through, I pretty much had to know what really happened. The reader hears from most of the prominent characters, Mellie (younger daughter of hotel chain owner, who is spotted at a hotel launch party & propelled into modelling & subsequent fame), Sir Peter (aforementioned hotel owner who gives his viewpoint via interviews for a book), Nell (Mellie's best friend & former model), Finn (Mellie's ex-husband & father of her two children). The only person we don't hear from directly until the very end is Mellie's older sister, Zara. In fact Zara is pretty much a blank as far as her character goes which is a shame as I would have liked to heard more from her view of things.

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any Facebook employee has access to your personal information, including what you say in Facebook messenger to others. Indeed, engineers are regularly fired for “snooping” and using that information (eg engjneer finding out where a girl he likes hangs out so he can be there) The ugly truth was known all along -- Facebook would inevitably grow bigger and turn into something it wasn’t 10+ years ago, when things were simpler. People fear the power it has, the data grab and the freakish powers of the Facebook AI. But AI is already widespread. In The Ugly Truth, readers are introduced to a new phase of Greg's life as he enters the tumultuous world of adolescence. As he navigates through the challenges of growing up, Greg has to confront issues such as changing friendships, puberty, and the awkwardness of fitting in. This book delves deeper into the complex emotions and social dynamics that accompany the transition from childhood to teenage years.

All-round tragic. There are obvious parallels to the Brittany Spears debacle involving her father, but exactly how intentional that was is anyone’s guess. It’s left me with such an uncomfortable feeling. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.a b c d Tatiana Siegel (2008-03-17). "Cheryl Hines learns 'The Ugly Truth' ". Variety . Retrieved 2008-08-15.