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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 438 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (August 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312960034
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312960032
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,969,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsVery Realistic and an Excellent Novel
By Chris on February 29, 2000
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I am currently reading the book and am more than half way done with it. This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. It is very descriptive in details and has very realistic characters. The book makes you think that the characters are real and the story really took place. This is a page-turner that will be so enjoyable to read that you won't be able to put down until you finish it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA truly amazing, non computer geek, book.
By A Customer on March 22, 1999
Format: Mass Market Paperback
A book that bases itself around a computer may at first seem geeky and boring. Not so. Watkins uses a form of language that helps you to understand all of the technical babble that is needed for the story. Along with the amazing intricacies of the computer side there is the non sentimental human side. A love story that isn't really love but more lust, and small touches of human suffering and pain which add and enhance to this original novel. I had to keep reading the book as each page left me in suspense. There were no boring parts and no slow paced bridges between stories. Truly mesmerising and amazing.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFarmville, anyone?
By macjedi on March 7, 2011
Format: Mass Market Paperback
After spending two months completely addicted to Mafia Wars, I have to laugh at the techies who reviewed this book and thought the "technical flaws" were too much to overcome. Written several years ago, the book is at the mercy of stale technology; I think we can give the author a pass on not predicting 4G technology and social networks.

The premise, though, is inventive and the larger message of the book is one that great minds are seriously pondering. What will happen when the worldwide computer intelligence exceeds the worldwide human brainpower?

While the author is probably not techno-geek enough to make the technology perfect, the suspense, the human failings, and the ultimate reality he paints raise questions that concern us all.

I read this book when it first came out, and have watched the bookshelves in vain for further writing from this author. A good read, worth your time.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBelieve it or not
By csierra_aar@iname.com on December 23, 1999
Format: Mass Market Paperback
A great book to read.
Indeed, Graham Watkins has braught us to the future.
With all the Y2K around us, his story is indeed a great true and original script.
So why the four stars? The rapid going book brings us to a falling end. The book ends too quickly and with no more room to be mistaken, the writer was eager to end it, so he ended it. I would have preferred the end to end alternetavilly. The human race should not always win.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA technothriller with a medical mystery angle!
By A Customer on October 1, 1996
Format: Hardcover
This book combines two worlds, technology and medicine,
beautifully. It is first a medical mystery and
thriller. A mysterious condition, Computer Addiction Syndrome
is making its appearance in EDs accross the country. The victims
have several things in common -- they have high IQs, have been using
a computer, and are dirty and malnourished. The
patients sometimes arrive dead -- a strange convulsive
disorder apparently the cause.
A medical doctor and a psychiatrist, along with a computer programmer
and systems analyst, begin to investigate the strange influx
of patients with this syndrome and find that something
strange is going on over the Internet. A new caching system
is taking over all computer operations and activities. It
seems to make everyone stay on the computer -- forever.
Games are more realistic, in fact, playing them may be
very harmful to your health. The other part of the book is
technical -- many complex explanations for computer programmer
jargon and hardware descriptions (hardware here is a bit
behind the times as far as 386 being mentioned, etc.) but
even a relatively uninformed person can skip over it without
losing anything too important. You'll love it! Of course you may
be tempted to never turn on your computer again, but hey...
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt will happen!
By A Customer on September 4, 1999
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This book can certainly not be compared with anything Robin Cook wrote. It is a different dimension. Cook wrote really weak novels and this novel is anything but weak. With the millenium bug approaching the scenario in this novel seems to be very realistic, and I think it is only a matter of time until something like that happens. We have enough crooks sitting in front of computers and there are enough "intelligent" software programs being processed at the moment, we can be sure some time there will be a disaster. The novel has its small flaws though. It is only readable for people who know computers. Maybe it would be much more interesting to people who do not know computers. And the side plot Mark - Alex is simply unnecessary. The motivation is wrong and it does not in any way promote the meaning or even the speed of the novel. Sometimes less can be more! But certainly, it is a good and suspensful read, if not a page turner. Definitely not a Robin Cook!
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