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Summary: Thought provoking, fascinating, a few flaws
Review: The essays, individually, were very strong, and collectivelymake for quite an interesting read. Pro: Funny in places you don't expect; don't miss the "Clitoral Hoods" response to censorship at CMU, or numerous other great touches. Con: It is a little disorienting to receive (it seemed) 6 explanations of Usenet in a row. It seems like careful editing could have prevented the essays from these tedious redundancies. More importantly, I found all the essays to be worth my time reading, save one: the sensationalistic piece of tripe about "hacker's attitudes towards women." I can only conclude that the author of this piece was hopelessly naive, or else was going out of her(?) way to create a piece of fiction doing justice to every adolescent male's fantasies of hacker eliteness. So cliche riddled it would have made me laugh if it hadn't been so far removed from the rest of the book in quality. In sum: excellent essays, well worth a read, skip the unspeakable hacker essay.
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