Robin Sloan
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.75 | 167088 Users | 24731 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #1) |
| Author | : | Robin Sloan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | October 2nd 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Fantasy. Writing. Books About Books. Contemporary |
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The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends, but when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls.Identify Books As Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #1)
| Original Title: | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore |
| ISBN: | 0374214913 (ISBN13: 9780374214913) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/mrpenumbras24hourbookstore/RobinSloan |
| Series: | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #1 |
| Characters: | Clay Jannon, Ajax Penumbra, Kat Potente |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2013), The Kitschies Nominee for Golden Tentacle (Debut) (2013), Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2013), 本屋大賞 Nominee for Translated Fiction (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 167088 Users | 24731 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore #1)
A mysterious old bookstore with some kind of secret society to be infiltrated and unraveled? Cool! Except, alas, here we have a fun premise ruined by bullshit nerdbro execution.1. An everyman nerd protagonist with no personality beyond a degree in design and deep knowledge of the internet whose main development is his realization he has talented friends who are more interesting than he is. Congrats?2. A best friend whose company does boob physics for video games and whose major contribution toOK, I'm going to try something different with this review...a bit of snark!I have been wanting to read this one for so long. I was enchanted about the idea of this 24 hour book store. A book about a bookstore, with book references...yeah! But what I got instead, was a drinking game. That's at least what I got out of this one. The story starts with Clay Jannon, who has lost his job at a bagel place where he is doing tech work and then goes to work at Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour book store. He tells
There was something odd about this book. Not entirely sure what exactly, but I'm thinking it might've been the setting. Waaaay too close to... my real life, so to say. I'm used to stories that happen in either a far-off realm, or a place I've been to, but with just the right twist to make it seem "fantastic". This one seemed all "huh, I could actually see it happening". As a computer programmer myself, I was lucky enough to go on a business trip to Silicon Valley, where I also visited the Google
I have just lost the will to live. Have spent two hours writing a review of this brilliant book and then saved it but somehow Goodreads managed to lose it . Will probably kill someone if i sit here any longer so am off to the gym to do something sweaty, noisy and pointless and maybe will try again later. Very f***ing annoyed. Bye for now....................its a brilliant book by the way. I hate the 21st Century sometimes'Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in''All
4.5 Stars. Over a year ago, before I was on Goodreads, I tried to read this book and gave up on it early on thinking it was for a much younger group of readers. I also had too much going on and sometimes when you have a lot going on in your life it can impact everything, including what you're reading! After reading so many other people's glowing reviews I finally decided to give it another go. This time I read the whole book and by the 1/2 way mark I was hooked! Loved loved loved it! It was so
Ugh, not recommended. I considered stopping reading several times, but it was such a quick read that I just sped on through.The novel made a dramatization of numerous topics that I do feel like I have a bit of expertise around - San Francisco, Googlers, data visualization, encryption - and the book's representation came off as a shallow, borderline painful overt dramatization. It seemed ridiculous. I know little of the author's background, but the novel itself gave the impression of too strong
Meh - 1.5 stars because the plot was interesting enough that I finished the book and there were some funny moments. While Mr. Sloan is imaginative and quick witted it does not make up for poor writing and boring characters. The book is just bad first person narrative. This would be an acceptable as a Syfy Saturday movie but not for a novel.For example "It's early in the morning. We came straight from the airport. Neel visits Manhattan all the time for business and I used to take the train down
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