The Last Best Thing: A Classic Tale of Greed, Deception, and Mayhem in Silicon Valley
Pat Dillon's Silicon Valley potboiler was originally serialized in The San Jose Mercury News, where it drew an avid, computer-literate audience. Now The Last Best Thing is available between... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0684836149
ISBN13:9780684836140
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Length:350 Pages
Weight:1.26 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
An amusing light farce and very little else
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book was originally a weekly humor column crossed with a low-grade soap opera, and as light farce and satire of Silicon Valley characters, companies, and customs, it succeeds cleverly. Of course, the author knows virtually nothing about technology (or at least ignored it in the book), the characters are tissue-thin, and the plot is ridiculous. In a farce, these are not bad things. This book makes even lightweight stuff like Po Bronson's "The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest" look like a scholarly disseration, which is not, again a bad thing (considering Bronson's questionable grasp of tech--though his book is good, too). At very least, it's a fast read and you'll get a better feel for the absurdities of Silicon Valley.
Masterful lampoon of Silicon Valley
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
Dillon peppers this high camp tale with a combination of both real and loosely veiled references to industry luminaries and key events. The quasi-serious tone gets a bit tiresome at times, but for anyone familiar with the vendor end of information technology, this book accomplishes an hilarious send-up of every cliche and vice that plagues modern Silicon Valley.
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