Eric

lulz

Revisado: 10-05-09

This book was pretty lame, all in all. Terminology was defined all the way through the book. Seriously, I'm starting to think it was done just for filler, rather than to educate anyone.

And some of the terminology was pretty lame. Code slinger? Does anybody call themselves that? If so, I'd punch them right in the face for being a bigger dork than I. But you know, there are fans of tech slang. I guess I can't fault the book for that.

What I can fault the book for is for being pretty much movie-tech, rather than reality-tech. By that I mean, the technology was painfully fictitious. What kind of hacker "logs into a c-prompt". Lame. What kind of hacker in the internet age uses dos?

Why is trap-door some kind of internet business killer? We have the kind of stuff all over now-a-days and most end-users don't even care. My aunt puts her credit card into a website knowing she's got a virus installed, but doesn't even think that that virus transmits the keys she enters. She don't care, and neither does anyone else. TRAPDOOR is a joke. I'm going to make fun of it in IRC tonight.

Also, did this book take place during the age of BBS or during the internet revolution? I don't even know. It's somewhere in the middle, in this book.

Anyway, all the negatives aside. I managed to sit through the whole thing, so it's not all bad. It got good about 3/4 of the way through when the author couldn't define any more words because they'd all been defined. Also, Phate was a total jerkhole, so it was fun to find out what happened!

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It's ok...

Revisado: 10-01-09

I'll start by saying that Team Moon is definitely a kids book. I was hoping for something much more in depth. This wasn't really a book about how we managed to do it, but it was more a book about the timeline with some basically laid out details. The book basically reads out how the synopsis for the book is written, just lacking depth.

For example, I would've loved to hear about what they actually *did* on the moon. But that wasn't even covered. There was no mention about the previous missions.

That said, it was enjoyable after about half-way through during the climax of the narrative; I even got a little teary eyed thinking of it all. But to be honest, if I were a kid, I'd still think there just weren't enough details!

Ah well, it's a nice listen for anyone who doesn't already know the story, and probably great for the under 10 year olds who want to know about the moon.

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