Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 10-02-2012
Robin Sloan,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 10-02-2012
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780374214913
Publish date: 02-10-2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Novels,
Writing,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Fiction
I first read this around the time it was published. I enjoyed it, but couldn't remember most of the story a year later. Rereading it, it's still a good story, but maybe not as good as I remember. I could have done without most of the epilogue. Some of it was nice, but some of it just felt unnecess...
Mr. penumbra's 24 hour book store Characters: Clay, Kat, Mat, Neel, and at least a dozen different other characters. Clay is resourceful, Kat is eccentric, smart, a google nerd, Neel a CEO gamer geek, Mat the artist. The characters are colorful and vibrant and unforgettable. While the slow story m...
I really liked the story, but it didn't make much sense. Does that make sense? (lol) I kept being bugged by all the references to Google and other technologies. I had more problems but am unable to articulate what the problems were. :(
When I started this book, I thought it would read like The Shadow of the Wind. Instead it reads like... well, I don't know. It's an adventure story with a mild side of mystery and a lot of Google thrown in. Despite not knowing what I was getting into when I started it, I enjoyed it a lot (it definit...
I loved this story. It was so interesting and smart. About a third of the way through I knew where the group would find answers, but since I wasn't exactly sure what the answer they were looking for was going to be, I was hooked the entire time. I like the characters and how everything wove toget...
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