The Bug
No. 41 ·
Transcript
- Samantha: OMG! What happened!? Do you have food poisoning?
- Randall: Samantha....HELP... The ending was so sad. I can’t move.
- Samantha: Were you reading this? This isn’t a technical book... It’s a novel! Randall! You’re having something called an emotional reaction.
- Randall: I’m never reading fiction again.
Samantha says…
When Randall read The Bug by Ellen Ullman, he withdrew himself and complained of how sad he felt in response to the story. I knew it was the first time (in a long time) that he had read fiction and I assumed it must’ve been a good book! I’ve heard that the protagonist is a programmer in the 1980’s, and the bug is actually referring to a bug in code. I don’t want to attempt to summarize it any further, because I haven’t read it yet. I can say that Randall does recommend it, despite his reaction.