Scarlett Thomas
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 3.73 | 5187 Users | 569 Reviews
Itemize About Books PopCo
| Title | : | PopCo |
| Author | : | Scarlett Thomas |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2005 by Mariner Books (first published December 31st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary |
Representaion During Books PopCo
Are you happy?Alice Butler has been receiving some pretty odd messages—all anonymous, all written in simple code, all eerily vague but pointed enough to show that the sender has been watching her closely.
Are the messages from someone at PopCo—the slightly sinister, profit-hungry toy company that has herded Alice and its other top creatives out to a secluded Thought Camp? Are they from Alice’s long-disappeared, treasure-hunting father? Are they from someone who knows that her cryptanalyst grandfather left her the key to finding that treasure? Is quiet Ben, Alice’s new love, hiding something that could help her discover their source? And could it be that these codes will lead Alice to a secret even more carefully guarded than her own?
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| Original Title: | PopCo |
| ISBN: | 015603137X (ISBN13: 9780156031370) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books PopCo
Ratings: 3.73 From 5187 Users | 569 ReviewsArticle About Books PopCo
This is a pretty terrible book, somewhere between the DaVinci Code and a Babysitter's Club Camp Mohawk Super Special. It's not entirely unreadable and in 571 pages has maybe 4 to 5 good lines. Plot lines never line up together, gratuitous dialogue which is only meant to give exposition, and an unhealthy obsession with the amount of fantastic food the heroine can get are wearying. I only finished the book because I've been trying to finish every book I start this year.The writing is almostI started to read this book by coincidence so I did not know what to expect. In fact, it's not easy to define the genre of the story: we can find cryptography, codes, math, as well as politics, economy, love story and an unconvetional childhood of Alice. The whole story is a little bit weird, so is Alice, and I have a weakness for weird things...
The first time I read this, I thought it was just about the best thing I'd ever read. However, after a second time through, I find a lot of the stuff set in the present to be annoyingly didactic, especially when the protagonist goes off on a tear about homeopathy, veganism, or corporate evil.However, the backstory, which involves pirates, cryptanalysis, thought exercises, goonishly cool math, mean girls, and the best grandparents in the world makes it still, a worthwhile and satisfying read.And
Sheer bloody-mindedness, and disliking not finishing a book, made me trundle through this 400+ page steaming pile of egregious nonsense. It sounds promising, the concept is interesting, I have a vague interest in codes and there is always a slight creepiness to children's toymaking. How wrong I was.Let's start with the main character. This woman is an uber hipster - can't possibly do anything that anyone anywhere might see as 'cool', but to the point where it actually stops her doing things. The
This was really an awesome and exciting book. I couldn't really name what kind of book this is, as it interweaves so many topics (and well) that it's unbelievable. Foundational themes include cryptanalysis and marketing, but the author also touches on several other interesting areas, including 17th-century pirates, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual worlds, gaming, mathematics in general, and British schoolgirl life in the 80s. I loved the nod that Bletchley Park got, as I
I did enjoy this book. I thought I should make that clear now, because I mostly want to rant about it.Thomas used homoeopathy as a plot device in The End of Mister Y. Okay, that's fine, you get one magical freebie. However, when it showed up here in PopCo, I realised; Oh...you really believe this, don't you?There are also severe problems with Thomas' representations of veganism and activism. At one point, a character destroys a PopCo product in a toy store, as a passive-aggressive way of
This book is probably something I would never normally pick up. I found it at a garage sale and got fascinated by the blue pages and since it was only 1 pund I decided to buy it. almost regretting it when I found out how weird it looked on my bookshelves.Well Popco surprised me in a good way. It's much different from what I usually read ( a lot of YA) and the math often became too complicated for me considering the fact that English is not my first language and I've never done math in English
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