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Title: Headcrash by Bruce Bethke ISBN: 0-446-67314-5 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.63 (35 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: If only Neal Stephenson and Bethke could get together...
Comment: This is the book that Snow Crash should have been. Now, before I am attacked as a heretic, let me say that I'd be the first to admite that Neal Stephenson is a much better writer than Bethke. It's just that Stephenson has a tin ear when it comes to humor, whereas Bethke is spot-on. As good as Stephenson's writing is, I found much of the humor in Snow Crash (which was another attempt at a send-up of the cyberpunk genre) to be slightly funnier than a dumb Saturday Night Live skit. Bethke's parody is much more inspired. It helps to be familiar with the shopworn cliches of cyberpunk before you read this. All the elements of your standard-issue cyberpunk thriller are mercilessly skewered in this book: characters who are so impossibly cool that they have to drink antifreeze, the ritualistic scenes of "suiting up" in incredibly cool cyber-equipment, hopelessly optimistic portrayals of the future of virtual reality, pointless fads of the present extrapolated into earth-shaking trends of the future, and the Incredibly Greedy and Faceless Corporate-Government Cartel that Controls the World. Tom Clancy, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Crichton are also spoofed. Once again, Bethke's writing style is only marginally better than what you'd expect from a bright college sophomore, but it does the job. Now, if only we could have a novel with Stephenson's gifted writing and Bethke's sense of humor, we might really have something.
Rating: 2
Summary: HeadCrash - Funny, but a rubbish end
Comment: From all the other rewiews you can see what the book is about, some applaud it others do it down.
The Humour of this book is rather good, its got a type of humour i can relate to easily
The cyberpunk view of how the nets gonna b like in the furutre with VR using datagloves, socks etc to feel and move in VR not excluding the haply named ProctoPod (which u don't wanna where that goes)
MAX_COOL AKA Jack Burroughs looses his job, but gets offered something in VR he cannot refuse, a hacking job that could get him £1mill in real life if he succeeds.
The storyline has twists n turns and you c ppl from Jacks (PYLE) VR past and who they are in real life.
However my gripe is with the end of the book, everything goes out of the window and the courtroom chapters simply are confusing beyond belief and i feel rushed when they were being put down into words.
However for some good laffs and a insight into how the net could turn out i recommend this book, as long as you don't wanna read it till the end, shut it at one of the end chapters and make ur own one up i think.
Rating: 1
Summary: Stuff so lame should be pilloried, not rewarded
Comment: Bruce Bethke managed to write a mostly unfunny novelization of three or four Dilbert strips. The book was relevant for some two weeks, I guess, and they were gone before the hardcover edition saw the light of day (perhaps the reviewers at the publishing house read the manuscript at that time?). The protagonist is an unmitigated, weapons-grade J.E.R.K. with the declared IQ of two million and the tested one around minus ten. Other characters rustle when moving around - they're paper, not even cardboard. The "reality" of 2005 is more like June 3, 1994, with snazzy car names. All in all, forget you saw this book. Buy something else, a Coke, a burger, anything would be healthier - even a pack of untipped Gauloises. The environmental impact would be smaller, too.
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Title: The Ultimate Rush by Joe Quirk ISBN: 0312969023 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book) by William Gibson ISBN: 0553281747 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom by A. L. Haskett ISBN: 096788330X Publisher: Jonlin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Quicksilver : Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (Stephenson, Neal. Baroque Cycle, V. 1.) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0380977427 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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