Reviews

Hackers by David Bischoff

vitaminlee's review against another edition

3.0

Hack the planet! Iconic lines from the movie made their way in and it made for a quick, light read. Not certain in added much to the original material, nor is my fashion imagination good enough to compare with the outfits we saw onscreen.

becksri29's review

2.0

It's no secret that I enjoy the cheesey 1994 movie Hackers starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie as superhero-like even hackers Crash (Override) and (Acid) Burn. I liked it as a kid, and I still like it now, but perhaps the only reason I still like it is because how much I liked it in the 90's. Who knows? It's really not that great, full of two-dimensional Gen X characters, a simplistic plot, and not a lot of actual computer science. Plus, Burn (literally the only female character who isn't one of the main characters' moms) comes across as little more than a love interest for Crash, who happens to have the same interest in hacking. The movie definitely does not pass the Bechtel test. But, since the guys are all equally one-sided and she really does have some mad skills, I can let it slide a bit. So basically, all this is a preface to explain why I actually read a novelization of the movie. Oh, the horror. Yeah, and this was a particularly bad novelization (my apologies to the author, whom I'm sure has produced some much more entertaining original work at some point). This book landed on my virtual shelf when I was trying to download a copy of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a fantastic non-fiction book about the earliest players in the computer industry who really pushed the machines to their limits and led to the awesome tech we have today. Instead, I got punked with an e-copy of this. And.... because of my love for the cheesey movie, I actually read it. And it was bad. Like really, really bad. But I finished it, and maybe even liked it just a tiny bit. Please don't judge me.

nimrodiel's review

3.0

This book was written based on the screenplay of the film Hackers. While sometimes, these are fun and expand on the charecters as we see them in the movie, this one followed the script pretty tightly.

Hackers is one of my all time favorite films, so it was fun to re-visit the story. However I think next time I will just pull out our copy of the movie.

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