Hollywoodbomb edition by Jason Cole Literature Fiction eBooks
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Fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” will love this satirical look inside the twisted worlds of software development and entertainment.
Everything’s new for Stephen these days new baby, new project, new client, new challenges. After a brief paternity leave, he returns to his job managing a team of brilliant but strange software developers and gets tapped to lead a big project for a new client in Los Angeles creating a web-based talent search. Unfortunately for Stephen, the client is crazier than his developers, and the team in LA has a mysterious agenda of their own. Will Stephen rack up another big success, or will this project blow up in his face?
Hollywoodbomb edition by Jason Cole Literature Fiction eBooks
My rating scale:***** Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the like,
**** a great modern book,
*** a very readable book,
** would probably not finish & therefore not review
You may recall the Bill-Gates joke from the 90s: Bill Gates died and appeared before God. He was told that he had done a pretty good job on earth and now could have his choice of two heavens. He saw one, a peaceful park with families picnicking, children playing, and wildlife thriving. He saw the other, a beach party with beautiful women, good drinks, and plenty of sun. He said, "They are both appealing, but I think I will go with the beach party." God said, "Have it as you wish." Suddenly Bill was engulfed in flames and cried out, "Why this? I chose the beach!" God said, "Oh, that was just a demo."
Like the joke, "Hollywood.bomb" is a satire the grew out of the computer revolution. A farce, it exaggerates the oddities of computer programmers and the inane management styles of businesses seeking to put those programmers to work for profit. It could have been written by someone with one foot in the technical world and one in the business world, simultaneously looking askance at what each offered.
Unlike the business owners and managers, software engineers are not phony ("they were just too likely to tell you what they really thought, a shocking concept"), but they *are* odd and, at times, short on social skills. From their point of view, marketing material is "the unique hybrid language of marketspeak, a perverse blend of English, jargon and half-truths" none of which the engineers wish to allow to "sully their creative minds." When one programmer comes close to a nervous breakdown, the obvious symptom is that he starts writing in BASIC instead of "Java, or at least C++."
By and large, the intended audience for the novel are those who might be called geeks who have acquired a cynical attitude toward the inflated importance and efficiency of the techno-business world. The novel, set in Boston and Los Angeles, sketches excesses in American culture around the turn of the millennium, including this commentary. Not finding a Dunkin' Donuts, the Boston programmers see " . . . another Starbucks" that is unfortunately on the wrong side of the road, but soon realize "there is one on our side another block up."
The writing is straight forward, avoiding pretentiousness, but along with that, only occasionally engaging in allusions and metaphors, such as when Alka-Selzer tablets are dropped in the cup of one of the least respectable characters, causing it to foam "angrily, a miniature Vesuvius threatening the Pompeii of legal pads and plastic pens scattered about it." Occasionally wordplay enters in, such as when someone is presented to the organization as an "asset" and a character replies, "Asset? . . . Well, you're half right." Another example is when it cannot be determined whether the code reviewers in Singapore conclude that the code was "top-rate" or "too late."
One of the most imaginative passages occurs when Ricky goes on a vision quest, not recognizing that he's wandering around Hollywood landmarks, but instead imposing upon them spiritual significance. The scene is so good that it is disappointing when, later, a character explains to Ricky (and the readers) the actual settings.
Finally, the novel is not without some moral quips. The trajectory of the plot teaches the project manager--formerly called into failing projects in order to bail them out--that, 'It's easy to call the other guy an idiot when you don't know what he had to deal with."
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Hollywoodbomb edition by Jason Cole Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
What a nice complement to #SIliconValley. Totally worth reading!
My rating scale
***** Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the like,
**** a great modern book,
*** a very readable book,
** would probably not finish & therefore not review
You may recall the Bill-Gates joke from the 90s Bill Gates died and appeared before God. He was told that he had done a pretty good job on earth and now could have his choice of two heavens. He saw one, a peaceful park with families picnicking, children playing, and wildlife thriving. He saw the other, a beach party with beautiful women, good drinks, and plenty of sun. He said, "They are both appealing, but I think I will go with the beach party." God said, "Have it as you wish." Suddenly Bill was engulfed in flames and cried out, "Why this? I chose the beach!" God said, "Oh, that was just a demo."
Like the joke, "Hollywood.bomb" is a satire the grew out of the computer revolution. A farce, it exaggerates the oddities of computer programmers and the inane management styles of businesses seeking to put those programmers to work for profit. It could have been written by someone with one foot in the technical world and one in the business world, simultaneously looking askance at what each offered.
Unlike the business owners and managers, software engineers are not phony ("they were just too likely to tell you what they really thought, a shocking concept"), but they *are* odd and, at times, short on social skills. From their point of view, marketing material is "the unique hybrid language of marketspeak, a perverse blend of English, jargon and half-truths" none of which the engineers wish to allow to "sully their creative minds." When one programmer comes close to a nervous breakdown, the obvious symptom is that he starts writing in BASIC instead of "Java, or at least C++."
By and large, the intended audience for the novel are those who might be called geeks who have acquired a cynical attitude toward the inflated importance and efficiency of the techno-business world. The novel, set in Boston and Los Angeles, sketches excesses in American culture around the turn of the millennium, including this commentary. Not finding a Dunkin' Donuts, the Boston programmers see " . . . another Starbucks" that is unfortunately on the wrong side of the road, but soon realize "there is one on our side another block up."
The writing is straight forward, avoiding pretentiousness, but along with that, only occasionally engaging in allusions and metaphors, such as when Alka-Selzer tablets are dropped in the cup of one of the least respectable characters, causing it to foam "angrily, a miniature Vesuvius threatening the Pompeii of legal pads and plastic pens scattered about it." Occasionally wordplay enters in, such as when someone is presented to the organization as an "asset" and a character replies, "Asset? . . . Well, you're half right." Another example is when it cannot be determined whether the code reviewers in Singapore conclude that the code was "top-rate" or "too late."
One of the most imaginative passages occurs when Ricky goes on a vision quest, not recognizing that he's wandering around Hollywood landmarks, but instead imposing upon them spiritual significance. The scene is so good that it is disappointing when, later, a character explains to Ricky (and the readers) the actual settings.
Finally, the novel is not without some moral quips. The trajectory of the plot teaches the project manager--formerly called into failing projects in order to bail them out--that, 'It's easy to call the other guy an idiot when you don't know what he had to deal with."
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