Amazon.com info for 'Hackers'

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Rating: 5 Summary: A great novel! The movie is a must see!
Comment I watched the movie before I had read the novel, which I didn't know about. I felt it was great, although there were some things that appeared in the book that didn't make it into the movie, but I won't give those away! This book is a must have if you own the movie! I'm hoping that I'll receive the soundtrack from the movie soon!

Rating: 5 Summary: A great novel! The movie is a must see!
Comment I watched the movie before I had read the novel, which I didn't know about. I felt it was great, although there were some things that appeared in the book that didn't make it into the movie, but I won't give those away! This book is a must have if you own the movie! I'm hoping that I'll receive the soundtrack from the movie soon!

Rating: 1 Summary: Skip this
Comment Skip this book and skip the movie if you havent already seen it. It's poor un-realistic and booring fiction. Want to know about Hackers? Go read the Fugitive Game.

Rating: 4 Summary: Although a good book, the ideas are somewhat unreal and they
Comment Although almost identical to the movie, the novel Hackers by David Bischoff is about a boy genius hacker named Dade who after crashing 1507 computer systems as a boy with his virus is banished from the world of computers and touch-tone phones till he is eighteen years old. His father left him and his mom and they moved to New York City and again he is swept into the world of hacking. He meets a group of hackers and one of them gets into some mischief while hacking a Gibson (oil company). Their main enemy is a large companie's computer security engineer who is stealing money from the company and tries to blame it on the young hackers. Dade is asked to join the engineer, but he refuses saying "I don't work well with others." Suddenly Dade and his friends are being accused of things they did not do and they must hack their way to Freedom. I thought this book was entertaining but it had no factual information at all. People who have no idea about computers or phones will be convinced that all this information is real. People who know about computers and phones will know that the information contained in the book is fake and made up. When one of the hackers was inside an operating system it was like he was floating in a surreal world, when in truth he would be navigating through a bunch of command prompts. Also, when Dade used his answering machine to record the pay phone tones in order to make free phone calls. Although you could do this, it usually doesn't work on most pay phones anymore. The book has a fantastic amount of New York City cyberpunk culture. The way the hackers all hang around in computer oriented clubs with bright colors and virtual video games adds to the computer underground type atmosphere. The end of the book was very satisfying. I won't tell it to you but they do get their revenge in some way and avenge their hacker friends. Steven Basler

Rating: 4 Summary: Better than the movie
Comment This novelization of the Hackers screenplay was a little better than the movie, but that's not saying much. Actually despite the glaring technical faux-pas of both book and movie it was an enjoyable read...