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Austin Grossman: You (2013, Hodder Education Group)

400 pages

English language

Published 2013 by Hodder Education Group.

ISBN:
978-1-4447-2995-5
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3 stars (1 review)

After joining a revolutionary video game company run by his once-closest friends and a team of eccentric nerds, Russell discovers a software bug that leads him to uncover a mystery stretching back twenty years.

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3 stars

Kind of neat, but not without problems. The setting - guys who become computer game developers growing up in 1980s, then diving into the industry in 1990s - is nice and the description of the computer game world is interesting and the games they created were kind of cool. The characters were fine, maybe, if a bit stereotypical, and the plot was non-existential for a while and kind of forced in the end. The book was a long-winded; more compact and to-the-point writing could've earnt a fourth star.

There were technical annoyances. At one point, the protagonist uses PC commands to start a C64 game. No, it doesn't work like that. Of course the games they create and play are wildly fabulous and way larger than life, and that's kind of boring – reading about someone playing a game of your dreams is not quite the same as playing it. …

Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, thrillers, general