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Adrian McCarthy, a California native, has spent more than twenty years writing software professionally, including stints at some of the most famous companies in Silicon Valley. He wasted decades dabbling with screenwriting and science fiction short stories and novels before figuring out that he liked mysteries.


It has come to my attention that the Sony Reader Store added DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) to copies of my novel Blue Screen of Death. I do not approve of DRM, and it was never my intention for my book to be sold with it.


I’m not sure why Sony did this. They do not add DRM to all of the books they sell, but Sony does have a terrible history of putting anti-consumer technologies into thei...

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Average rating: 4.80 · 5 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Blue Screen of Death
4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012

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read in April, 2013
I get that Elmore Leonard likes to write lean prose, omitting most description and relying on action and dialogue to invoke the characters, but this was too lean for my taste. No surprises, no depth. Just a trio of bumbling bad guys getting what's co...more
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by David Hunter
read in March, 2013
I'm not actually a beginner with XML. I've used it (and some of the related technologies a little bit). So I'd learned bits and pieces but never had a formal overview. This book helped me fill in some of the wholes, understand the relationship betwee...more
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