“ The Shallows is a book everyone should read.” –Anna Lena Phillips, American Scientist “Carr a Paul Revere for our Net age.” – USA Today
I have not only given this book to numerous friends, I actually changed my life in response to it.” –Jonathan Safran Foer He is a profoundly sharp thinker and writer - equal parts journalist, psychologist, popular science writer, and philosopher. “Carr is not a proselytizer, and he is no techno-troglodyte. “If you care about your own ability to think and read deeply, please treat yourself to Carr’s book.” –Carol Keeley, Ploughshares “Carr’s fresh, lucid, and engaging assessment of our infatuation with the Web is provocative and revelatory.” – Booklist “An essential, accessible dispatch about how we think now.” –Laura Miller, Salon “We are living through something of a backlash against the frenzy of attention dispersion, a backlash for which Carr’s book will become canonical.” –Todd Gitlin, The New Republic “This is a lovely story well told - an ode to a quieter, less frenetic time when reading was more than skimming and thought was more than mere recitation.” – San Francisco Chronicle “ The Shallows is a modern classic of internet criticism.” –Leo Mirani, Quartz “Nicholas Carr has written a deep book about shallow thinking.” –Daniel J. Carr insists, and he has me persuaded.” –John Horgan, Wall Street Journal We all joke about how the Internet is turning us, and especially our kids, into fast-twitch airheads incapable of profound cogitation.
“Carr is a great writer … This is a must-read for any desk jockey concerned about the Web’s deleterious effects on the mind. “Editors’ choice.” – New York Times Book Review It includes an extensive new afterword that examines how smartphones and social media are influencing our thoughts and emotions. The Shallows is, writes Slate, “a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”Īn expanded, tenth-anniversary edition of The Shallows was published in 2020. With The Shallows, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and a New York Times bestseller, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the net’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic essay, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. “I have not only given this book to numerous friends, I actually changed my life in response to it.” -Jonathan Safran Foer “A book everyone should read.” - American Scientist “Essential reading about our Internet Age.” - New York Times Book Review “This is a book to shake up the world.” -Ann Patchett THE “MODERN CLASSIC,” NOW AVAILABLE IN AN EXPANDED EDITION
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