Books by Ed Piskor
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review 1: I had to check at the end to make sure this wasn't non-fiction; the story feels very much like it could be true, as a boy grows up in the hacker era and becomes one of the greats. The story is told part retrospective, part from a slow-moving present, as Phenicle's prison time ge...
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review 1: The more you know about hacking, the less interesting this volume is likely to be. It's interesting to see some of the old ways to hack into systems and to be presented with fascinating ways of beating the system that were possible in the past, as well as the hype around computer...
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review 1: I love the subject, but I was a bit confused by the lack of a clear timeline. What years were covereed exactly? I grew up listening to some of this music. This book is best read with a laptop up so you can look up the music, the pictures of the people involved, and able to search...
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review 1: We're discussing this volume of Hip Hop Family Tree on the podcast for this coming week. This one didn't strike me the same way the first volume did, but it's really good and gives (I guess) a nice general overview of hip hop between 1981 and 1983. I say "I guess" because I'm re...