The Future of Us, Carolyn Mackler
The Future of Us, Carolyn Mackler
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The Future of Us

Author: Carolyn Mackler, Jay Asher

Narrator: Steven Kaplan, Mary Ellen Cravens

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2011

Synopsis

It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.

Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.

Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.

Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.

About The Author

Carolyn Mackler has written feature articles for Jump, Ms., and The Los Angeles Times. Mackler is known for her novels Infinite in Between, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Tangled, Guyaholic, and many other titles. Her books have been published in over twenty countries. Mackler was born in New York. Jay Asher's debut YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, has appeared regularly on the New York Times bestseller list for the past nine years. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone and is currently in production to be a 13-part series on Netflix. His second YA novel, The Future of Us, was coauthored with Printz Honor winner Carolyn Mackler. He is also the author of What Light. His novels have been translated into 35 languages.   Visit his blog at www.jayasher.blogspot.com and follow him on Twitter @jayasherguy.Steven Kaplan is an audiobook narrator known for Legend, Prodigy, Champion, Prisoner B-3087, and numerous other titles.You can learn more about Steven Kaplan and his work at stevenkaplan.com/ Mary Ellen Cravens is an American actress with numerous television appearances, including roles on The Sopranos, Spin City, Saturday Night Live, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. She has also provided voice work for the video game Max Payne 3 and the audiobook The Future of Us by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on December 05, 2011

The hypocrisy in this book is absolutely immeasurable. Emma dates guys based on how hot she thinks they are, or how good their hair looks. She does not care a single ounce, nor even LIKE the guys she dates. She simply dates them so she can have a boyfriend and doesn't once consider their feelings. D......more

Goodreads review by Iulia on September 16, 2018

This book did not feed my 90's nostalgia as I hoped it would. Besides some very generic cultural references which served to assure the reader that, indeed, the events are happening in the 90's, there wasn't much effort to create some sort of 90's atmosphere. However, the whole "time-travel via inter......more

Goodreads review by Megs ♥ on January 14, 2012

Emma and Josh get their first AOL disc in 1996, and once they log on, they are somehow able to login to Facebook. They can see their future on their Facebook pages and change the future simply by changing small things they do in their current lives. When I first read the synopsis I thought this was......more

Goodreads review by Giselle on January 10, 2012

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......more

Goodreads review by Monica on September 07, 2018

Esperaba más de esta historia, es entretenida pero solo eso, los personajes principales no me engancharon y se me hizo una historia muy fantasiosa, creí que iba a ser una historia más profunda al menos la sinopsis prometía un poco más de lo que resultó al final.......more

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