What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Adult fiction. Nomad guy in a van with computer and modem discovers he can break into banks/ stores, travels the country (like Robin Hood?) & meets future wife/ girlfriend. Read 1975-1985.
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Thanks for the cleanup, this is my first time doing a search.I don't remember if he gives to the poor or is just a well-meaning grifter who steals from "the man". I *think* part of the plot was him living in a van so tracing the model calls would just lead to RV parks and public phones.
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Yes, set in the United States. I checked it out from a Parish library in Louisiana, so I assume it was published in the US.
Maybe! This Kirkus review sounds a bit like the book I read in high school in the early 80s: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...
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- https://books.google.com/books?id=4zO...
Plot: guy with a computer and a modem discovers he can break in to banks/stores and steal money/goods. Buys a van (RV?) and travels around the country as a sort of Robin Hood, breaking in to banks for money to pay for his travels. This was *not* science fiction, the technology was explained in very lay terms. He met his wife/gf while on his travels. No memory of how the book ends. I remember it being more of a techno-savvy hippie-turned-Robin-Hood book than anything else.
I was in an experimental computer programming class in Jr. High and sold Commodore 64s at a store when I was in high school, so I knew about "phreaking" and "hacking". My memory is these words were not used in the book.