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Hackers

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Although almost identical to the movie, the novel Hackers by David Bischoff is about a boy genius hacker named Dade who after crashing 1507 computer systems as a boy with his virus is banished from the world of computers and touch-tone phones till he is eighteen years old. His father left him and his mom and they moved to New York City and again he is swept into the world of hacking. He meets a group of hackers and one of them gets into some mischief while hacking a Gibson (oil company). Their main enemy is a large companie's computer security engineer who is stealing money from the company and tries to blame it on the young hackers. Dade is asked to join the engineer, but he refuses saying "I don't work well with others." Suddenly Dade and his friends are being accused of things they did not do and they must hack their way to Freedom. I thought this book was entertaining but it had no factual information at all. People who have no idea about computers or phones will be convinced that all this information is real. People who know about computers and phones will know that the information contained in the book is fake and made up. When one of the hackers was inside an operating system it was like he was floating in a surreal world, when in truth he would be navigating through a bunch of command prompts. Also, when Dade used his answering machine to record the pay phone tones in order to make free phone calls. Although you could do this, it usually doesn't work on most pay phones anymore. The book has a fantastic amount of New York City cyberpunk culture. The way the hackers all hang around in computer oriented clubs with bright colors and virtual video games adds to the computer underground type atmosphere. The end of the book was very satisfying. I won't tell it to you but they do get their revenge in some way and avenge their hacker friends. Steven Basler

It was quite good for a movie adaptation. Not everything is perfect but it is a great one! Good luck getting a copy.

I watched the movie before I had read the novel, which I didn't know about. I felt it was great, although there were some things that appeared in the book that didn't make it into the movie, but I won't give those away! This book is a must have if you own the movie! I'm hoping that I'll receive the soundtrack from the movie soon!

This novelization of the Hackers screenplay was a little better than the movie, but that's not saying much. Actually despite the glaring technical faux-pas of both book and movie it was an enjoyable read...

This was surely the most EXHITING book i've ever read ! It's a very nice thriller for young and old people that have to do with computers or not. Just buy it !!!

Reading this book was like watching the movie for the first time. It blew me away. It was well adapted from the screen play and brought more realism to every single character. I do hope there is some sort of follow up to this storey, I loved the characters [especially Kate {;o)] If you're a fan of the movie then GET THIS BOOK, you'll love it.

I thought that this novel was very well thought out from the movie. So I encourage other to read it.

This book is so great i bought 10 of them. If you like the movie your marry the book. It just goes so much into detail about every little thing they did and you see what really goes on in the story not a FCC edited movie!!! I think they should do part TWO!!!!thanks for ready this!!! and "Hack the planet!!!"

This is the story of five hackers, Zero Cool, Acid Burn, Cereal Killer, Phantom Phreak and Joey. These five are a group of hackers who have been framed by a dark side hacker named The Plague. The plague works as a computer security officer at Ellingson Mineral, while working there, he implanted a worm (A computer program that steals little bits of info, this worm steals money) Joey, the newest hacker gets caught downloading the file that the worm program is stored in. The plague uses this to his advantage, he then launches a virus named da vinci to sink tankers, he then blames it on the hackers so he can retrieve the worm file, but the hackers figure out what the file is, and the race is on to stop the plague from sinking the tankers. This fast paced sci-fi novel is excellent reading for anyone intrested in hacking, or in computers themselves.

How do I say this kindly? First I saw the movie and thought it fun and entertaining, but in an unbelievable, wishful sort of way. Then, while perusing Amazon.com, I came upon the novelization of "Hackers." Naively I came to believe that "wow, the book sounds better than the movie!" So many amazing reviews surprised me, and I figured four dollars, why not. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! The dialogue is poor and paltry, the descriptions are bland, and absolutely nothing is added or expanded upon from the movie. It's a cheap rendition of the movie that takes away, if anything, from a joyful romp in the make-believe. I don't know how these other reviewers can be so deluded, but I assure you that this book is a waste of time and money.