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February 09, 2008
Ford Madox Ford once said, in discussing how to choose whether or not to read a book, "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." Marshal Zeringue took Ford's advice to heart and launched his most excellent blog, The Page 99 Test, which features excerpts from the ninety-ninth page of newly published books. Zeringue asked me to send in something from The Big Switch, and this morning he posted my contribution.
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I'm guessing he has never read novels by Umberto Ecco ,Thomas Pynchon, or James Joyce.
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at February 9, 2008 03:48 PM
How about "The Last Page Test". It's more of a spoiler than the 99th page test. Try it. Look at the last page of The Bible: The Devil did it.
Posted by: Linuxguru1968 at February 11, 2008 10:51 AM
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Work in progress:
The Shallows
Nick's new book:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
Nick's last book:
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