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Rogue Code (2014)

by Mark Russinovich(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1250035376 (ISBN13: 9781250035370)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

series

Jeff Aiken

review 1: Preordered this for Eur 12,99, this just over my selfset barrier of Eur 10 for most books.But I really like his style regardless of the flaws. And this one is about high speed trading, which I just avoided during the first internet bubble and now I am slowly trading with part of my retirement money, so I still have some stocks and try to stay current with the IT / Tech News.While no Day-Traiding expert, I know terms like IPO and have a basic understanding of the stock-market, NYSE and NASDAQ which certainly helps reading this book.What I really liked, in comparison to books describing IT and internet by other writers, the tech is on the point real. This part may be too much for a normal computer-users, as a former Helpdesk-Slave I consider myself not a Hacker, but a Nerd a... morend an Insider and I use a little (Mac OS) Unix daily. So I cannot really say how the tech described here works for a non-tech user.What is obvious to the books before in the series: the writing has matured. Not without faults, I think it is 10-20% too long and jumps too much between the different places. But that is nicely boxed within a chapter, one place per chapter, mostly.There are a few news-articles, summaries and memos thrown in the story. Some are of real events, the Facebook IPO.Still, I recommend it, the tech is real and believable and the risks very real. After the book has ended, there is a section with additional material, both books, articles and urls. This something which I miss in a lot of fictional books, and in this case I will read some of the material on the Web (but probably not the books).(Corrected two wrong words and inserted a few where the structure and grammar was bad, I German, expect this ... May 29th 2014)
review 2: Again, Mark Russinovich is one of the few who know enough about computers and programming to write realistic fiction. The girl with the dragon tattoo is good entertainment, but if you take your time to enjoy this book you will understand that most computer related stuff in fiction books are just fiction. This book is realistic and it's based on how stuff works, but it's still a very good story. Thanks Mark Russinovich, it's truly hard to turn geeky nerdy stuff into a page turner, you have done it! Keep up the good work. less

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