Hard Drive [Paperback]

David Pogue (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1995

From David Pogue, contributing editor to Macworld, comes this gripping thriller of a computer virus that explodes into a global plague threatening to infect every financial and military computer system in the world. It is a race between man and machine, as millions of dollars and countless human lives could be lost in the single pulse of a microchip. Reissue.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ace (August 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441002552
• ISBN-13: 978-0441002559
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,146,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and tecnical, March 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Hard Drive (Paperback)

This book was very interesting for Macintosh owners. I am a Macintosh computer consultant and found this book to be very beleivable. I even learned some stuff about Mac programs.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Page-turning, though flawed, and with NO SEX!, December 7, 2004

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Hayford Peirce (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Drive (Paperback)

A 2001 reviewer complained about the gratuitous sex in the first and last chapters. After I wrote an initial review of my own saying there was no sex at all in this novel, he has now (Dec. 2004) revised his review to say that the copy of the book that he obtained from his public library evidently was a publisher's error -- it did indeed have two chapters with sex between characters that didn't appear at all in the rest of the book. Very strange, but errors do occur in publishing. So this review is my revised version. In any case, this is a novel about computer nerds -- driven, vicious, dangerous, yes -- trying to destroy each other in a quest to get a ground-breaking new killer-app program to market. It's exciting in a goofy sort of way -- you always want to know what is going to happen to next, and the villains are *really* villainous, and right up to the very end it looks as if the bad guys are gonna get away with their nefarious scheme. The characters are cardboard, but, for all I know, typical of geekdom in Silicon Valley. Read it, and get several hours of enjoyment from it.

BUT -- don't expect there to be any sex in it except for a chaste kiss in the next-to-the-last line. What else could you expect from computer types?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant surprise. Excellent techno-thriller., March 12, 2002

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Sean Caszatt "Kaiju Otaku" (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Drive (Paperback)

I bought this book on impulse while standing in line at my college bookstore. It was a slow day and I needed something resembling mental popcorn to occupy my brain for awhile.

Hard Drive turned out to be one of the best computer-themed thrillers I've ever read. I devoured the book in a few hours and read it again immediately thereafter. (I NEVER re-read anything.)

I'm not a Macintosh fan, but I appreciate that David Pogue is definitely a Mac expert. I didn't see anything wrong with his using the book to toot the Mac's horn a little bit. Those without much knowledge of computers might be a little put off by the book's premise, but I don't think the book would appeal to that type of person anyway.

This book is out-of-print, but is well worth searching out!