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Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions

Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel
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Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom he has obsessively been mourning.So begins HOOKED, a pop thriller for the Digital Age, written with the force and the pace of an intimate email dispatch you can't stop reading. Each chapter of this novel will keep rea... (show more)

Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom he has obsessively been mourning.So begins HOOKED, a pop thriller for the Digital Age, written with the force and the pace of an intimate email dispatch you can't stop reading. Each chapter of this novel will keep readers hooked as Nat Idle searches for the love of his life in the midst of manipulation and conspiracy.Just as previous generations were influenced by movies, today we are becoming hooked on Internet technology, which is changing the way we read, think, and dream. HOOKED vividly illustrates how technology is turning us into a national of addicts. It will make you rethink your relationship with your computer and your mobile phone. (show less)

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Keith Heumiller
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Keith Heumiller, 5 months ago

Quote-leftIf Richtel just tried to write a poppy suspense novel and make some cash, I think this would be fine for what it is. But he tries to go all Delillo on the shit and make these broad sweeping comments about the technological revolution and its impact on our lives. It comes off as odd, awkward, and little cheezy. Ooooo....get it? The computer makes you "addicted" to it. You see? It's symbolism for the way computers really are. WOW! This, my friends, is why life-long professional reporters hardly ever break into the category of serious fiction. You spend your life documenting facts and verifying truths and dealing in black and white, then you try to move into a world where the truths are less tangible, where the facts have no statistics or succinct quotes behind them. Simply put, a history of covering technology for the Times doesn't qualify you to cover one of the major American psychological developments in the last 200 years. Stick with what you know, and leave the symbolistic peripheral commentary to the masters.Quote-right

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Adam Thomas Banks, 10 months ago

Quote-leftGood read. The conspiracy theory was very well conceptualized. At the same time I really thought that there would be more closure between the main character and his long lost girlfriend. I was left wanting a little bit more.Quote-right

Dave Shaw
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Dave Shaw, 11 months ago

Quote-left'Hooked' reads like a bad made-for-TV movie. Terrible. Just terrible.Quote-right

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