author: Brian Wood

name: Steev

average rating: 4.16

book published: 2014

rating: 5

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date added: 2018/09/13

shelves: after-the-fall, fun, own-it, politics

review:

author: Brian Wood

name: Steev

average rating: 4.20

book published: 2014

rating: 4

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date added: 2018/09/13

shelves: after-the-fall, fun, own-it, politics

review:

author: Yasha Levine

name: Steev

average rating: 4.31

book published: 2018

rating: 5

read at: 2018/08/10

date added: 2018/08/10

shelves: own-it, politics

review:
Mind-blowing. Jaw-dropping. Eye-opening.

If you care how the world we live in got built, this should be required reading.

author: Jon Reiss

name: Steev

average rating: 4.24

book published: 2009

rating: 5

read at: 2018/08/04

date added: 2018/08/04

shelves: filmmaking, own-it

review:

author: Warren Ellis

name: Steev

average rating: 4.22

book published: 1998

rating: 4

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date added: 2018/07/22

shelves: fun, politics, own-it

review:
fun, and eerily prescient in some ways, for a 1997 publication. A preoccupation with journalistic integrity, truth, and authenticity is a constant thread.

As a story though, not particularly mature. Spider Jerusalem is a snotty know-it-all anger-factory who never changes and never really has any obstacles he can't easily kick in the teeth and yell his way out of. In a way it's satisfying to follow this avenging demon around his corrupt and rotting City as he smites evildoers and lectures the populace about "the truth". But ultimately it's pretty juvenile to have a main character like this who never learns or grows.

The art is really great, a riot of overwhelming detail.

author: Lauren Slater

name: Steev

average rating: 3.90

book published: 2000

rating: 5

read at: 2018/07/04

date added: 2018/07/04

shelves: memoir, fun, spirit-self

review:

author: James Bridle

name: Steev

average rating: 2.00

book published:

rating: 0

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date added: 2018/06/26

shelves: after-the-fall, art, wishlist, politics

review:

author: Chris Lehmann

name: Steev

average rating: 5.00

book published:

rating: 5

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date added: 2018/06/22

shelves: fun, own-it, politics

review:
Especially standout article: "Manufacturing Consent" by Robin West

author: Corey Pein

name: Steev

average rating: 3.71

book published:

rating: 5

read at: 2018/05/12

date added: 2018/05/12

shelves: own-it, politics

review:
Definitely scathing! This book confirmed and resonated with my experience living in SF during the first web boom, and Pein’s healthily cynical take is refreshing and entertaining. I’m someone else who lived through it but didn’t drink the koolaid, and trust me, be very afraid of Silicon Valley.