OK so I read this book because I'm a space nerd and the story sounded interesting.The title and the intro should've been a tip-off. The intro talks about the story being a dramatized account.But God is it a badly written book. So much random unrelated sexual innuendo. And so much random dramatiza...
This quarter I read "The Accidental Billionaires The Founding of Facebook" written by Ben Mezrich. The book is mainly about how, who, and why Facebook was created. There are four main themes of the book, it's a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal. This novel is a great read because it gives...
Mezrich has a style and it works for him As for me well its sort of feels so formulaic and slightly boring.i think for me its the subject matter , his previous novels have felt slightly more interesting and i think thats the issue.If you like Mezrich you will enjoy it because you like Mezrich if ...
Straight Flush, Ben Mezrich, 10 East 53rd street, New York, NY 10022: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013, 288 pages.In Straight Flush, Ben Mezrich narrates the true story of six college buddies that start a small little online business that soon expands to a multimillion dollar business only to end ...
"Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" by Ben Mezrich is a nonfiction work that takes a look at a group of MIT graduates and dropouts who develop and perfect a card counting system, which they use to great effect. Specifically, the book conc...
For the first two-thirds of its 300+ pages, SKIN is the best TV tie-in novel I've ever read. Near the end, though, it stumbles a bit and ultimately has to settle for being ONE of the best (IMHO). The medical info throughout the story was so detailed and completely legit that I suspected author ...
I loved this book! I read it in two days and was totally intrigued the whole time. I am a sucker for stories of rags to riches- young and passionate people who want to change the world and work their asses off to get there against insurmountable odds. It's the american dream. And the best par...
Thad had managed the hour-and-a-half drive south all right, his Toyota leading the small caravan of mostly expensive foreign cars from the JSC outer parking lot to the Texas coast without losing a single co-op along the way. But once they had all jammed their way onto the single-deck ferry for th...
Even at such a close distance, he could barely make out the men atop the camels, their long, white cotton Arabian thobes blending into the fierce eddies of white-hot sand that swirled up from the desert floor. It wasn’t Jack’s first time on a camel, but the conditions were more challenging than h...
There was simply no way a gaggle of sugar-infused, over-stimulated sixth, seventh, and eighth graders were going to pay attention to a red-faced, bespectacled middle-school principal reading names off a clipboard, while a futuristic air train whiffed along an elevated track, twenty feet above the...
Mulder aimed his gun at the man’s chest. “Stay where you are.” The man continued forward. Mulder realized there was something off about his face. The man’s eyes seemed strangely overdilated. He was looking right at Mulder— but he seemed somewhere else entirely, locked in some sort of daze. “Not a...
It was only 11:00 A.M., but from the frenetic motion coming from the trading pits, it was obvious the day was going to be even more chaotic than usual. David, of course, knew the reason for the tumult: a few days earlier, the National Weather Service had predicted a warmer than normal winter for ...
He could almost forget that he was little more than a glorified cop, moonlighting for a few extra dollars and perhaps a chance at something more, while Berezovsky was a man with hundreds of millions in the bank, who had, on at least two occasions that Litvinenko knew of, dined with the president....