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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Sloan, Robin
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Sloan, Robin	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Sloan, Robin	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Ari Fliakos.
A tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life-mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore.

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Great audiobook submitted by crazypockets on July 4, 2014, 5:28pm This was a really fun book to listen to on CD, so I took my time with it. The reader did a variety of voices, and you could tell he was having a great time reading this book which always makes it more fun for the listener. As for the story itself, I'm glad I finished it because it went in a different direction than I thought it would. A lot of the elements of it still made me very sad/nervous like the emphasis on digitizing books and the disappearance of bookstores and the glorification of the expansion of Google. I think maybe this book was written at a time when people were more optimistic about Google, when it was an idealistic company and hadn't yet begun to be twisted by its own immense power.... I have to wonder if people reading this in the future, even a few years from now, will feel the anxiety I did during those parts on an even higher level. In that light, the ending was even more reassuring though.