Popco
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299898394 (1299898394)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Womens,
Mathematics
If you were to sequentially lay out the events that transpired in PopCo, it wouldn't look like there's a lot going on.On the surface, it's the story of Alice Butler, a developer of children's codebreaking games for a multi-national toy company PopCo, who goes to a conference and gets chosen to devel...
This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
Me ha gustado muchísimo. La mezcla entre enigmas, misterios, códigos en clave....Simplemente perfecto. Muy recomendado si te gusta hacer de "detective" y también si te gustan las matemáticas y su historia. Es muy entretenido y terminas completamente metido en la historia.
Thanks to Megan Milks for turning me on to Scarlett Thomas, who's so great. Maybe I enjoyed this so much because I worked at an evil neo-liberal web development agency at the turn of the century, but I think anyone who's critical of advertising and likes cryptography (and mysteries) will love this b...
12 years ago
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