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Overall, a fun, light and quick read. What started out as a great book for me fizzled out in the end. I found the coincendences to be a bit much and then ultimate "meaning" of the story (view spoiler) to be a little simple and juvenile, which may be why I have seen some discussion around whether the book should be considered YA.
The book is unique and reminded me a bit of Ready Player ...more
The book is unique and reminded me a bit of Ready Player ...more
This was one of those books that takes quite a while to figure out what it’s all about. Clay lost his website and logo design job due to cutbacks, so he gets a job as a night clerk at an unusual book store. He ends notices some weird things and so he and the girl he’s dating try to figure it out. She works at Google and has access to high-tech computers. Anyway, they are led on to more and more. This book reminds me a bit of a mashup between The DaVinci Code, Ready Player One, and an Encyclopedi
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An homage to books and technology, done with flair and humor. A book that deserves to be read several times so you can concentrate on one aspect at a time
The first half of the book was appealing, wasn't too thrilled with the second half, but all in all it did keep my attention.
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Initially I wasn't quite sure what to make of this, but ultimately I feel like Sloan did a really nice job of capturing what I love about books - not their physicality but the world of ideas they bring to their readers and the connections we forge when ideas get shared. In a way, I find it refreshing to read a book-about-books that's more about where we are right now and where we're going, and not in an I-miss-the-old-days way. Technology is powerful stuff and it's fun to see an author really fl
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listened to the audio - well read!!
Listened on audio. Enjoyable, excellent narrator.
Dec 21, 2012
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