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Yep.
Sometimes I feel like books mostly set in cyberspace are supposed to strike me as strange. It's supposed to be strange that cyber-protagonist wanders into a virtual mockup of a 1980s pizza place, complete with arcade games, or that an alternate reality has easter eggs and other gamelike elements. It's supposed to strike me as strange that relationships can develop online without ever seeing each other's real face.
These things are not strange to me. Maybe that's why all the nostalgic references ...more
These things are not strange to me. Maybe that's why all the nostalgic references ...more
I should have liked it, I'm really the target group. It's well written, geek references galore, but it still felt like a glorified Dan Brown (better written, I give it that). Still, it was nice and fast read, it's just that the main characters were all really boring.
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It is ok. Lots of telling rather than showing, though.
It's like a book that was pretty much written for me - A nerdy gamer who grew up in the 80s.
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I'm inclined to think there's such a thing as taking "write what you know" a little too far.
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Nov 07, 2013
Mark
marked it as to-read
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Rebecca (LirilAB)
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