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Version Zero

Von: David Yoon
Gesprochen von: Kevin R. Free, VyVy Nguyen
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 From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about how we can save ourselves from the very real perils of a virtual world.

Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley.

With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have to break them. But when Max and Akiko join forces with a reclusive tech baron, they learn that breaking things can have unintended--and catastrophic--consequences. Abenteuer Science Fiction Technothriller Thriller

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One of Entertainment Weekly's "Best New Books"

“The novel is at its best when satirizing the high-tech business world and internet culture...fans of dystopian fiction will want to check this one out.”--Publishers Weekly

“For his first adult novel, YA superstar Yoon draws on his decades in the tech industry to envision a takedown of the digital world so complete that paper comes back into fashion...A fast-paced, contemporary take on The Monkey Wrench Gang, blowing up digital infrastructure instead of dams.”--Kirkus Reviews

“With Version Zero David Yoon holds up a mirror to our ways of life, our hardships and vulnerabilities. As he lures us into the story of a smart, naive young man’s desire to make the world a better place, the mirror turns black. This propulsive, visceral, tech-rich tale is both all head and all heart , which is to say, it’s all David Yoon.”--Caroline Kepnes, author of You

“Version Zero is fast and fun, but more importantly, it’s an incisive, thoughtful takedown of Big Tech, our own social media consumption, and ultimately, may just serve as a call to arms.”—Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse

"Imagine a world in which the entire Internet is controlled by a handful of shady CEOs. Oh. Right. Well, imagine someone doing something about it. Imagine a high-speed, edge of your seat adventure with stakes higher than you can measure. Imagine it told in David Yoon’s unique and singularly engaging prose. That’s Version Zero, an addictive, brain-hacking exploration of the tech-run world we live in, and a rollercoaster so fast it will blow your hair off."--Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants
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I made it through about 60% of the book before I just could not take it any longer. This clearly was designed as "the" novel about the ugly truth behind the internet and social media, but unfortunately, it just doesn't cut it. Some very basic, juvenile computer lingo as intro combined with tons of (very) obvious references to big tech companies that are clearly meant to remind people of Facebook, Google, Amazon, AirBnB, Uber and so on. No real plot to speak of, so the story drags on explaining how the tech giants (mis)use the user data and interface with security agencies to create transparent citizens and their CEOs know all this and go along with it for profit. And how people know all this and still use the services because they are forced to do so by peer and social pressure. So they continue to post their private details even after all these "secrets" have been revealed by the brave activists, who are of course assisted by a disgruntled former CEO come super hacker whose daughter was killed because she spoker her mind on social media. All of this is put in contrast to the beatiful, simple pleasures of real human interaction and a life outside the internet. Yawn. All of that background detail is common knowledge, but regardless, the same sermon is repeated in different words over and over again, long after the point has been made and even the most ignorant reader will have grasped it. This could have been a halfway decent book if the author had spent an equal amount of time developing his characters and the storyline instead of moralizing, But he didn't and so it isn't.

Repetitive to the extreme

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