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Deadly Perversions
This wild novel has a great caricature of Howard Stern and his crew. If you love Howard, he's in the book. If you hate him, Arquette kills him off in chapter 15 (and quite violently I may add). Lots of good computer stuff in it for bit-heads. Tons of Cybersex for chick-heads. It's written in a fascinating self-effacing style where there are just as many laughs to break up the tension as there are chills. I highly recommend this read for anyone under 40. Over that, (unless you're somewhat feral) I don't think you'll get it.
I can't think of a way to traditionally walk you through the book and summarize it, because there are simply too many subplots and wacky characters to do a scene-by-scene breakdown, so if that's what you're looking for it's best to read the back cover of the book.
I'd like to concentrate on Arquette's writing style, which is so unique that I feel there are many reasons this book will become a breakout cult classic bestseller.
First, the novel moves at the speed of light, short, quick, entertaining chapters that keeps you flipping pages trying to find a stopping point, but to no avail. I found I had read half of it before even realizing I had spent hours doing so.
Second - it's fun! How many books can you say were really fun to read, especially fiction thrillers that spend half the time describing characters that get violently killed off right after you get to know them. Arquette's book has zero fluff in it. He has traded in the violence for sex (one of the two are a must for any best selling novel), yet he wrote the book in a way where it doesn't take itself too seriously. I found myself laughing my ass off many times, wondering if this was a thriller or a comedy, but Arquette structured the chapters so the laughs come in just where they're needed, cutting some tension, allowing the reader to take a breath before being consumed in the plot, yet again.
Third - Arquette keeps you guessing. Just when you think you have it figured out, another twist pops up, another character is introduced, and another finding from the CDC comes out, which leads you off in another directly. If you've read the first 21 chapters off his website (for free) don't presume to think you've actually read any of the book or could guess the ending. Not possible unless you have a crystal ball running Linux.
Fourth - It's written in a style I've never read before. I can't compare Arquette to any other writer, which in itself is something of an accomplishment. There are so many authors whose work just blends in with others until their styles all seem the same. Arquette's style, however, is smart and blunt. Where other authors imply things, Arquette writes them in black and white. He takes on subject matter that other authors would just assume leave alone, yet does a wonderful job of spinning it so the characters actions seem perfect reasonable to the character himself.
And lastly, there is freshness in the author's soul, and he writes young, as if he's catering to an 18 through 39 demographic. Most best selling author's are over forty and really don't write their books for the 'instant gratification' world the younger generation is experiencing. For example, books such as Stephen King's bloated 900-page Dream Catcher would have been a tight and quick 400 page novel if Arquette had written it.
I also like Arquette's website and the fact that he's determined to let readers download and read roughly a third of each of his books, before you buy. Some authors let you read a few pages, maybe a few chapters, but Arquette believes if you are going to shell out $15 bucks for a book, you should be able to read enough of it to really know it's something you want to purchase. It will be interesting to see how long his editors let him get away with that, but I find it refreshing that he has that mindset.
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What?
I thought hairy palms were the only risk I was taking.
Oh no, my date was infected by Nimda!
> There are so many authors whose work just
> blends in with others until their styles all
> seem the same. Arquette's style, however, is
> smart and blunt
Smart and blunt? That how I would describe Chuck Palahniuk's (hope I didn't butcher that) style. If the name doesn't ring a bell, I have two words for you: Fight Club.
This post is free (as in cheese in a mousetrap).
But there's just something about people who write about computers, technology, etc. that makes me just not trust or respect them.
I mean, if you love something so much and if you know a ton about something, why aren't you actually doing it rather than writing little editorial pieces here and there or spending years on full-blown books that won't even get read by many people.
Maybe I just don't like the whole "critic" idea. But over the years I've found that you can't listen to critics because most of them don't even like themselves, so of course they won't like any work that you do, whether it's a new computer program, a movie, etc.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
How long if you're hetero?
The whole point of tinysex is that you can't catch anything from it.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
I was just explaining to my co-irker how to mount a floppy drive in linux. Every time I said "mount" he laughed. He said I had "an unhealthy obsession with technology." Two minutes later I go to /. and find this article. This is some kind of strange cosmic coincidence right?
I was not touched there by an angel.
The reviewer asked "How many books can you say were really fun to read, especially fiction thrillers that spend half the time describing characters that get violently killed off right after you get to know them"
I respond: almost all early Stephen King novels.
Dude, this is slashdot. We got people here running Beowulf clusters of Crystal Balls bootin' Linux.
It's nice to read an actual book review instead of the book reports usually posted on fiction.
There's this videotape out there that kills you seven days after you watch it!
real virus that's spread via hardware/ software... Poof! Kills you in 72 hours."
:-)
Just Wait til the RIAA tries to implement this "copy protection scheme" MWHAHAHAHAHA.......
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
A virus which kills after 72 hours and is only transmitted by cybersex is doomed. That timespan is too short for the infection to spread. The deadliest viruses are those which have long incubation times with no symptoms at all.
How many books can you say were really fun to read
Um, why do you read them, then?
Anyway, this book sounds awful.
1. Write novel about sex and computers.
2. Get it reviewed on Slashdot.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
I have better things to spend my money on.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
..and then write a review... heheheh
-- derby
You mean like the one I got for /.? ;)
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
death after viewing something on the internet...
hmmm...
oh yeah... Fear Dot Com
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Um
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Man, I sure feel sorry for you modem users stuck with text these days. With cable and kazaa, I get all the porn flicks I want.
--sdem
But what the hell, I'm still waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, so I'll bite.
It's about information. I've learned so much stuff from just (and I'm not lying) reading and writing posts on this very site over the past four years.
Reading is about usually strictly about information. Newspapers, science books on recent research, etc. are all clearly not intended to be fun, zany, and off-the-wall experiences. They're books, and they're often times damn good ones at that. But this doesn't mean that these types of writers want you to trade your Friday nights out with the guys in exchange for a quiet night at home on the reclines reading their work.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
..would be Snow Crash. Alright, alright, so I haven't read Deadly Perversions, but doesn't it sound a bit cheesy? 3D cybersex gives you an STD? Whereas the Snow Crash virus tries to propogate through several means.
Besides, Neal Stephenson is cool, we all know that.
The idea of a computer virus being an actual virus and killing people has been thrown around so much in pulp novels and B-movies that it's become cliche already. Sounds like more of the same here. Strange how a nickname can spawn so many bad spins on the idea.
I highly recommend this read for anyone under 40. Over that, (unless you're somewhat feral) I don't think you'll get it.
'Scuse me? Is there some sort of auto-stupid gene that kicks in at that particular age? What difference one year can make...
And I've wanted to off Howard since he got fired from a local D.C. radio station for asking Air Florida how much a ticket to the 14th St. Bridge cost. For Chapter 15 alone I'll get the book.
Sorry, no dice, can't get past the idiotic concept. Sounds like a fantasy book, where are the dragons and the hobbits?
Because OOMatter
and William Gibson? These guys have a lot of nerve writing great books and then making you wait a couple of years for the next one. Is Cyberpunk really dead?
Worst. Sig. Ever.
Okay. This is the kind of shit that makes everyone laugh at scifi (and the 'dorks' who read it). Cybersex virus? Please. This is just the modern incarnation of atomic sex mutants, alien sex fiends, sex fiends in mirrorshades.....
Too many repressed harmonal urges, not enough sexual encounters.
That is this author, in a nutshell.
The book really rocks with a real virus that's spread via hardware/software during 3D Cybersex encounters. Poof! Kills you in 72 hours
Ummm....isn't this similar to Snowcrash?
If people acted out more perversions in cyberspace instead of the real world, we'd all be better off.
For every person who rants about someone dissing people under 30, there's a schmuck like this guy who says that "no one over forty will get it". People are all different and just because his parents were dull and stupid doesn't mean everyone over 40 is. I would never be so rude as to claim that someone is too young (or too old) to understand what I write about because I've encountered far too many of both sorts who are stimulating and interesting.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
Everyone has a secret... What's yours? Maybe it's a weird trivial fetish other people would find peculiar, even perverted. Look behind the closed doors of the boardrooms and bedrooms and observe all the libidinous shameful acts your doctor, neighbor, and boss may be hiding. It's the age of the high-speed Internet and a compamy called Talon has created some of the most sophisticated Cybersex software the world has ever see. Just pop on the 3-D glasses, log in, and immerse yourself in decadence. Have anonymous sex with anyone in the world, and if you don't like the way you look, change it. Choose a model off the Talon website and mask yourself. Be anyone you want to be, but be careful. There's something nasty out there, a disease that's spreading like wildfire. It stalks its host like a predator and kills so quickly that some are still smiling when they go down. How many more will die before the cause is discovered, turning what was once a naughty pleasurable pastime into a Deadly Perversion? Everyone has a secret...and those of you who say you don't probably have the most of all.
I noticed that the review didn't include a link to the free sample chapters. I hope this helps...
What the hell kind of term is that? All heterosexual males are chick-heads? Are you implying that those of us who like women more than we care about the purity of sci-fi or whatever other geek-cred nonsense you want to apply to it are somehow flawed? if so, that's freakin' scary. Do you not like women? Are you asexual?
Or if you're gay, forget I said anything.
http://www.herbzipper.com
It's a miracle he made it this long.
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. --John Wayne
Click it... if you dare!
"She was killed by that computer virus." Good god.
... and now the same nonsensical garbage is being lauded in a book?
... and while science fiction and fantasy often takes liberties with the possible and probably, spewing utterly nonsensical tripe like that IMHO simply requires too much of a suspension of disbelief to even be worthwhile, while alas preying on the illiteracy of others and clouding their understanding of real technologies further.
The show sucked regardless (perhaps even more than this book apparently does), but with that line it surpassed my tolerance threshold and I summarilly shut it off (and have studiously avoided it since). What utter crap
Please.
Its hard enough to educate people that computer viruses aren't real viruses, that memory (RAM) is volitile storage lost upon shutdown, while the hard drive ("memory" as it is called by some) is persistent, etc. etc.
We are already dealing with an abysmal state of computer literacy
The very, very worst of what science fiction can be (in stark contrast to Greg Egan's works, which educate as well as entertain, and often expand your imagination in the process, and to plenty of other speculative works that don't educate, but do entertain and at least don't misinform and cloud real issues in the process).
Thanks, but I'll give this one a miss.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
The guy has a quote from Jack Handy in the book. How bad can it be?
couldn't stop myself from posting this.
He takes on subject matter that other authors would just assume leave alone
i think that should read, "just as soon leave alone."
you probably shouldn't have read this.
hey there. i have you on my friends list.. but cmon now. why do you have to pull the money/success card?? there are plenty of people that work hard and are successfull that don't have all the things you just bragged about. I'm Marine, i work my ass off usualy 6 days per week, I haven't been home for the hollidays in 3 years. I made Cpl (E-4) in less than 2 years in service, and I'm due to pick up Sgt soon. Yet i have none of the things you list of a "successfull" person. But i have one thing, a sense of pride. I've done a lot of things that most people have nightmares about, but it is all part of the job. You may be working for personal gain, but others may choose a life of public servitude. and what is wrong with that? I sacrifice almost all my personal freedoms in order to protect people i have never met, and it honestly hurts my heart when i see people with a complete lack of ethics, but rich.
magnanomous.
Viruses that kill in 72 hours are much too deadly to be a real problem, no matter how infectious they may be. Take Ebola, for instance. Very deadly and very infectious, but it kills so rapidly (in less that a week) that it hardly has any time to spread. We simply don't see large outbreaks of Ebola because it kills its hosts too quickly. Now, HIV on the other hand, can take up to 30 years to kill its host while being spread around to every sexual partner. HIV, while less "deadly", is much more effective at spreading because those infected literally have years instead of three days to pass it around further. That's why we have large outbreaks of HIV but not Ebola.
Now, this virus in the book is way too deadly. Are we supposed to believe that a virus with a lethality rate of 3 days is going to be spread around the population like mad? Fat chance! People don't have sex that often in a 3 day time period (not even cybersex) so it wouldn't be able to spread effectively. And anyway, if somehow a large outbreak did manage to occur, everyone would just stop having sex for 3 days out of fear and then the virus would totally eliminate itself from the Earth.
This concepts in this book aren't believable. I won't be buying it.
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
Wait a minute - wasn't "cybersex" sort-of the envisioned killer app back around 1994 or 1995? Hasn't anyone figured out that it's not happening, or that it never really happened? It seems kind of pointless to write about it, and even more pointless to read about it. What's this guy's next book going to be about? The characters are surfing the web in 3-D and talking in 3-D chat rooms? These are the sorts of cliches that non-technical people scoop up, not the Slashdot crowd.
-- Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
The download counter as 006666 : i'm gonna get the disease now : gonnajerkoff to porn for 72 hours straight until i die... i know a lot fo you geeks live in porn, as for reasons of physical (fat+ugly) and social (geek + moma's boy) you can not get the real thing, and instead of finding yourself a nice girl and being the right way - you jerk off to porn and hire call-girls (the phone book in nyc is 1/2' thick of call girls, and well, someone is calling them - you).
When you cyber someone, you're cybering everyone that person has cyber'd and everyone that person has cyber'd, and every person that person has cyber'd.. and so on a PSA by cheapoboy.
Wil Wheaton is an activist? *cringes* Of what, I hate to ask...
it honestly hurts my heart when i see people with a complete lack of ethics, but rich.
How do you think they managed to get rich?
I highly recommend this read for anyone under 40. Over that, (unless you're somewhat feral) I don't think you'll get it.
;-)
I will be too old to understand this book by the end of the week! Need to download and complete it quick
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Sorry, but you're an idiot if you have ekrout on your friends list. He's a big fat stinky troll that just uses people like you to whore up his karma. He just makes ridiculous shit up to get flaming responses out of people. Come on, figure it out.
"Poof! Kills you in 72 hours"
:p
Big deal. I know of a VHS tape that will kill you in 7 days
You need a FREE iPod Nano
Uh-oh. Either:
the reviewer doesn't read a lot, or
Arquette has figurted out something that Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, and Pynchon missed, or
Arquette's writing is a bad attempt a creating a 'new style', apparently ("Where other authors imply things, Arquette writes them in black and white") short on subtlety and long on pure exposition: "See Dick. See Jane. See Dick run."
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
To summarize the review:
Perhaps the reviewer doesn't realize that some people in the 18-39 demographic are still able to enjoy books that aren't written to the same spec as the latest mindless blow-em-up action flick. Some of us even read books that don't have pictures in them, on occasion. There are even a few of us who read books that have no lines matching "[Cc]yber" or "[Tt]echno".
By the way, I get REALLY PISSED OFF when I'm reading a book and notice that the author is making an obvious overture to a particular demographic instead of following the internal logic of the book. So nyah.
I'm not the only under-40 person who loves to read intelligent, well-written books, am I?
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
jeez, havent read anything in print since Asimov died.... now I know why....
I've done a lot of things that most people have nightmares about, but it is all part of the job.
Isn't that what the NAZIs said?
This book sounds a little like Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", which is set in a dark future where corporations have mostly taken over governing. The main character finds himself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy involving a 'net virus called Snow Crash. My synopsis is so poor for such a great book.
Never use an apostrophe in front of an 's' when you are creating the plural of a singluar noun.
I first thought this story was about that fucked up cannabalistic pervert in Germany.
I just downloaded his 21 chapters and abandoned reading the first. His style is absolutely amateurish and if he didn't have what they call a "platform" to sell from (his columns), he'd never have gotten this tripe published.
Specifically, he has dire problems with POV (point of view). In the opening scene, the receptionist sees an incoming blonde as voluptuous and curvy - women DO NOT see other women this way! Only over-testosteroned males do. If you don't write believeable female characters you will only sell to teenage geeks/freaks.
Second, the constant use of passive prose does not draw the reader in. In the opening scene he spends paragraphs describing a woman falling down in the lobby. Now this could possibly be successful if not for phrases like "the immutable laws of physics kept pulling her over", etc that make the prose so stilted and bland.
This book is one step above comics.
I've done a lot of things that most people have nightmares about, but it is all part of the job.
Isn't that what the NAZIs said?
no, the problem with the Nazis was that they didn't have nightmares about the things they did...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
...just started reading the free sample that he gives out. Definitely not going to buy the book. I think I'd describe his style as... childish. Incredibly unrefined. His character development is really poor. It honestly reads like the first efforts of an eighteen year old. (That's not to say that an eighteen year old can't write extremely well, check out Confederacy of Dunces).
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
My hats off to you. I'm extremely grateful to the military professionals, for providing the rest of us the freedom to choose how we want to live our lives.
Anyway, if Super Successful Guy (parent) needs such accolades (degree, salary, sports car) to get laid, then he must be one seriously messed up dude. I mean, get real! It doesn't take that much effort!
Spread the RC luvin'
...pretty uninteresting. I can say with relative certainty that I would rather eat dirt than read this book.
Spread the RC luvin'
Lois Duncan edited this book - if you visit the author's website, you'll notice she's his mom. That's so sweet - mother/son bonding time with semi-pornographic novel editing. adorable.
I'm the stranger...posting to
A style unlike all others:
Jack Roller (known to the local vendors as "Jack the Jacker" and/or "Jack Splash") relied heavily on the privacy of public restrooms. Through either a physiological burp or possibly an over abundance of some esoteric, neurological chemical, Jack felt the need to continually pleasure himself manually. It didn't matter whether he had just popped or not, Jack the Jacker was always ready and more than willing to take another ride on the pounding pony.
I don't think I'll be buying this...
Asphyxia sex games.... (I'd post links, but I'm at work. ;-)
There's a website that does it now, too!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
First of all, I just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. I have a lot of respect for those in the military. I'm glad you feel the way you do about it. I may not always like how the government uses the military, but that doesn't diminish your service and dedication at all.
Second, you shouldn't have that guy on your friends list. He lives only to troll on Slashdot.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
In On Writing, Stephen King states (I paraphrase) that plotting is for sissies. In other words, create a bunch of weird characters and let them bounce around in your world. That's probably why King's novels tend go on and on. I think most author's works are short compared to King's. Except maybe Robert Jordan's books, which are big enough to put cover art on the binding.
would keep it going.
Can I bum a sig? I left mine at the office.
Hrm, I think I read this book already. . . I think it's called Snowcrash. I mean come on.
A computer virus that kills... Geez...
Sci Fi channel had a horrible b-grade movie with exactly this same plot, except it wasn't cybersex that killed you, but exposure to any networked computer/item, like ATMs that were infected by the computer virus.
The only cool thing about the movie was the people dissolving into random bits.
Other than that, a computer virus capable of killing a human biologically is impossible. The author needs to get a firm understanding of science before writing utterly impossible garbage like this.
They should call this Sci-Fantasy, or just plain fantasy. There is no science in it.
"...Responsible for allowing 3 goals in the first quarter..."
It's been awhile, but World Cup matches have quarters now. Fuck! I've been turning off the tube and hour and a half early...
OK, I read the sample, or at least the first few chapters, and it is not starting out as great literature. Cookie-cutter characters, and contrived cliches. It does move along, and it does have enough perversion to keep one titillated. It is the kind of book I would read if I was trapped, waiting for an airplane, with nothing better to do. I definitely wouldn't go out of my way to find this book, or recommend it to my friends.
Long live the Speaker Bracelet
Rolo D. Monkey
I think the guy is not worth reading.
He has no idea what he is talking about. His
writing style is not too bad, but in no way
unique. But I wonder whether he knows anything!
Lessee... Women do not judge other women as
beautiful or attractive. MIT does not have a
dean list. Sleeping your way through college
involves, in any high end institution, sleeping
with someone ahead of you - a senior or a TA in
the same department. People have instincts which
would prevent them from falling on their chest
unless they were someone encumbered or under the
influence. A virus that kills the host in 72
hours would have a hard time spreading, and in
this particular case would be extinct exactly
three days after its existance becomes common
knowledge. The physics of the 'hamster shot out
of the ass by igniting farts are all wrong', and
even if they were not, the doctor would be hard at
work trying to limit infection from the ruptured
intestines, not messing around with a broken nose.
And this is only on the first few pages.
In a few words, the guy has no clue about anything.
No good deed goes unpunished...
What is a chick-head? Is that supposed to be nerdish for a straight man or a gay woman?
From the so-called review (actually, from the introductory text, the rest of it looks like a marketing text) I guess this is Snow Crash II, the CyberSex Wars.
I think I prefer Stephenson.
It's always important for any Grammar Nazi post to have a subtle error in it.
>> The book really rocks with a real virus that's spread via hardware/software during 3D Cybersex encounters.
Learn to ####ing write, ###hole. The only thing worse than a book written by a semi-illiterate ####weed, is a book review written by a semi-illiterate, ####-for-brains retard.
Ah, my spleen feels much better now.
This just sounds like a porno twist on "Snow Crash"
Excuse me, but has anyone bothered to read the book? As an author myself, I would not _dare_ publish a book with spelling mistakes and even completely wrong terms. Since when is a man capable of performing a fellatio on a woman? Perhaps the author would benefit from consulting a cunning linguist :-)
Sorry, but this is really amateurish pulp. Not worth my $15. Good job the author allows you to download a sample!
IMHO, a far better read than smut.
Have you seen some of the smut on the internet nowadays?
Ed Wedig
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Good book too, Snowcrash.
Does this new variation have the crazy skateboards and the franchises?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
And one more level: If you get the book maybe it has a deadly virus on it. . . .
I read a book once where the murder was accomplished by putting posion on the pages of a book. .
The book reviewed sounds like a waste of time.
You can probably find Plan 9 from Outer Space at your local video store. It involves aliens who resurrect our dead, and use the zombies to get our attention. You can find the DVD for $10 now at Amazon
There's also Bride and the Beast. Here, a woman falls into a deadly perversion also - interest in her new husband's gorilla!!! Bwwaahaahaa!
And to think, when I first saw this slashdot story, I thought it was a serious review!
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If I could be expressed as a wave, what would my
my harmonic twins look like? Me, just smaller?
Anyway, urges to conform are commonplace and not
usually frowned apon.
-------
Incite and flee.
No joke! And depending upon what the cost of living is, mid 70's ain't much in NY or DC or CA...
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
If this kind of situation turns you on (no pun intended), then I recommend Snow Crash. It contains a computer/psychovirus which manifests itself as a bitmap that bypasses critical thinking and renders whoever looks at it a babbling idiot. It seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, but these days we have goatse.
There's a lot more stuff in this book that makes it a worthwhile read. I have yet to see a techno-thriller approach it in accuracy and fun, so I'm skeptical when a new one comes along.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
It's written in a fascinating self-effacing style
/.
So the book is self-e-facial? nice
yay my first post on
I highly recommend this book review for anyone with an IQ under 40. Over that, (unless you're somewhat feral) I don't think you'll get it.
Eponymous Mallard
Its hard enough to educate people that computer viruses aren't real viruses, that memory (RAM) is volitile storage lost upon shutdown, while the hard drive ("memory" as it is called by some) is persistent, etc. etc.
;^P
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That reminds me of a newspaper article about some guy who shot his computer because he thought it had a virus (or he thought he caught a virus FROM his computer) No hold on, there were two guys, they shot it (the computer) with shotguns and then set it on fire.
And NO, surprise surprise...they were NOT American. Amazing
Epomymous Mallard
.. but I already knew that. Gee, I wish the younger /. readership would stop assuming that just because someone passes the age of 40, they suddenly get mentaly transported to 1950.
No, I'm not kidding. We're introduced to the character "Ivan Jerconov" at the beginning of Chapter 9. At this point, I was completely convinced that this book was going to be a collection of puerile innuendos and gross-me-out descriptions of people puking up their intestinal contents. The target audience should be adjusted to "12-18 pre-pubescent males."
I appreciate the author's attempt to embrace technology. Publishing the first chunk of the book on the web is a good thing. Too bad the book is a turd.
I wonder how the reviewer REALLY feels about the author, or the book for that matter. The review is almost as bad as the book.
death after viewing something on the internet
Death after "viewing" sex tapes?
Brainstorm (1983)
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
Salon article on the African "Dry sex" phenomenon. Please please click the link and stare blankly at their banner ad, as i quote the article herein and do not wish to feel guilty.
They turn all the typos into words.
You forgot a few things that you have earned through the Corps: a sense of purpose, sense of duty, self respect... I could go on. Your rate of promotion strongly suggests that you are not only proficient in your job, but successful in the completion of your assignments.
I'm currently working to rectify my mistakes in my personal definition of success. I think I was a much more successful person while I was serving on active federal service, in spite of being salaried to a pay grade that virtually guaranteed that I'd never become a millionaire. At least I didn't feel that my motivations were completely absurd, which is how I feel about the rat race...
That being said, I think I'll try to resist the urge to flame the bejeezus out of the AC who tried to draw a parallel between a United States Marine LCPL and Nazis, and instead file that comment away as proof that just because someone has the freedom of speech doesn't mean that they have anything meaningful to say...