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"Wonderful book. It's endlessly creative, has well crafted characters, and is sneakily erudite. Plus it's really funny! It somehow manages to be both a biting social satire and a lighthearted madcap romp. The slogan "Thomas Pynchon meets P.G. Wodehous"
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"The novel presents less a sober critique of capitalism, more a burlesque parody of its slavering id. In its pages the Substrate corporation is a force from which you can never run, one which toys with you at its whim, which inflicts bland corporate h"
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I Think We've Been Here Before
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| A staggering achievement of investigation and synthesis. Graff has written what I believe might be the definitive account of the Watergate scandal. Like Rick Perlstein and Robert Caro, he has a knack for scene-setting and context-building. I had not ...more | |
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| A serviceable and engaging overview of the surreal, kaleidoscopic world of cryptocurrency. Ben McKenzie's coauthor, Jacob Silverman, is one of the most astute journalists covering crypto, but we don't hear much from him in this book. Instead, we real ...more | |
