by Scarlett Thomas
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...
I hate writing reviews like this, but this book was a total snooze fest, I slogged through all 464 pages hoping there was going to be a pay off, and well, it never came. The characters were boring and one dimensional, the storyline was all over the place and preachy (and I usually don't mind a littl...
PopCo was the novel Scarlett Thomas wrote before The End Of Mr Y, though it's now being re-marketed after the success of the former. I found it as compelling as Mr Y but not as satisfying, particularly the ending.It's the story of Alice, a twenty-something working for a global manufacturer of kid's ...
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