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An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.
Worse, they were lawyering up....
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe - and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.
Low-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. And boy, do they have news.
The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity's music ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything - and the aliens are not amused.
Nick Carter has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly, and he's an unlikely galaxy-hopping hero: He's scared of heights. He's also about to be fired. And he happens to have the same name as a Backstreet Boy. But he does know a thing or two about copyright law. And he's packing a couple of other pencil-pushing superpowers that could come in handy.
Soon he's on the run from a sinister parrot and a highly combustible vacuum cleaner. With Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick now has 48 hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.
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- Listening Length: 9 hours and 53 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: July 10, 2012
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008J9GD28
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.
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