Several People Are Typing

The book is a very quick read where the number of pages don't really give you a signal of the time it would take to read this. This is written only in Slack conversational style and that brings different expressions in the storytelling. There are no more descriptions of the setting and we slowly gather who's who in the story through conversations. And this storytelling style enables all the jokes we see in a communication medium like Slack with people talking over each other, multiple conversations in the same channel, and then the types of channels we have at work.

The story itself is less fun. The AI/bot interaction becomes less and less aligned with the premise of the story as it continues. As more interactions come in, reading the conversation becomes an onerous task. In the end, the story ends with the same lack of explanation it began with (which is fine).

The redeeming part of the book is that it's short. I couldn't have stuck with this book if it were longer. Being able to complete it over an evening is what made me complete it.