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tpoacherlast Monday at 6:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

"Press [ENTER]" is one of my favourite books.

I picked it up one day with the intent to just read the first paragraph to see what it was about. 3-4 hours letter I had finished the book without realising.

This happened again, twice. Such a good book.

May he rest in peace.


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ghafflast Monday at 2:44 PM

Novella actually :-)

Very good story. Published at about the same time as Vernor Vinge's True Names, which while quite different explored some of the same proto-Internet themes.

bathtub365last Monday at 8:57 AM

Wouldn’t reading the synopsis be a better way of discovering what a book is about than buying it and reading the first paragraph?

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