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Author: Rob Reid
ISBN : B005X0K520
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLow-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero
does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.Direct download links available for Epub Year Zero: A Novel
- File Size: 1959 KB
- Print Length: 386 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0345534417
- Publisher: Del Rey (July 10, 2012)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005X0K520
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,163 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Epub Year Zero: A Novel
Ok, so I clearly loved this book.
I think that any negative reviews are for 2 reasons:
1) Wrong demographic
2) Wrong expectations
1) I am a 25 year old guy, who lived through the hole Napster thing, and followed closely the RIAA and other developments as they came up. The reference to this period is a large part of the book, and if you somehow weren't aware of it, if you were too young, you may not appreciate it. Also, those people who did not live through the fun times of the early windows OS, will likewise miss many of the references. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you do not know what iPhone apps are, you will, once again, miss out. So for me, I feel the book was perfect as it hit perfectly to my age group, and my interests.
2) One of the reviews compares the book to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For reasons which I need not go into, I dislike that book, so I do not see what the problem is. In outline, they are very similar, they do have the common element of weird space aliens and space travel and a Human who gets trapped in between it all. In execution, and style of writing, the two are totally different.
I want to add that this book had me laughing out loud at times (very off if you are in public transit, or curling up in your bed), which is somewhat unusual for me. There are many books that I can mentally say to "oh that was kind of funny", but not a real, nice belly laugh like I got quite a few times here :)
Another note that I find important, is that the book is very up to date and quite factual. E.g. I checked a CRS report for congress which states "If the infringement is found to be willful, the Copyright Act permits "enhanced" statutory
damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work.