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265 reviews for:
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich
3.36 AVERAGE
265 reviews for:
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich
3.36 AVERAGE
Parts of the writing seemed ludicrously intentional.
informative
tense
medium-paced
after seeing the social network, this reads like a synopsis. it's all plot, no snappy sorkin dialogue to add that extra tortured star-crossed bff-ness to it. but the story under it all is great, if it's even possible to untangle from the casting. this suffers from heavy handed legal interruptions in the form of parenthetical disclaimers, especially in the latter chapters.
informative
medium-paced
Terrible. Read it on a flight and will never speak of it again.
I enjoyed this book, but I think Mezrich's Bringing Down the House is a more interesting story.
it was alright; I give it 2.5 stars. i feel like i could have just read a quick newsweek article about this and gotten the full story on these guys and i'm sure i'd have found that version more interesting. i don't really care about all the frat boy details. facebook started from some college guys at harvard. mark, the guy who had the idea to make it into what it is, screwed over everyone he worked with in the process. the end. my suggestion is to just catch the movie.
After seeing The Social Network, I wanted to read the book to get a bit more information. What a waste of time. This is one of the RARE occasions where I liked the movie better. I found this writing style extremely annoying. Someone who doesn't know how to write, trying to write like what they think a writer would write. Not to mention the sentences and in one case a whole chapter that is told in a weird format that appears out of no-where, "we can imagine what happened next." The other weird thing about the book is the margin size is HUGE, I can only imagine how short the book would have been if the pages had normal margins. All I can say is watch the movie and then read the Epilogue- "Where they are now...?" Now on to check my facebook :)
dark
This is the definition of page-turner. A gripping, quick read that I just could not put down. Since I had seen the movie ("The Social Network"), I knew the story already but still found myself pulled in by this account. As to how much of this book is true, it's hard to say. I would guess that there's more truth in here than Mark Zuckerberg would like us to believe. Admittedly, I would like to hear his side of the story but since he refuses to talk, we are left to speculate. Facebook has completely revolutionized the way people communicate with one another and so I find the story of its founding to be endlessly fascinating, regardless of how much of it is fact and how much is fiction. That's really beside the point, anyway. Mezrich (and by extension, Aaron Sorkin) has crafted an endlessly fascinating and well-written book that I had to finish as soon as I could. I don't get all the negative reviews on here. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg paid a bunch of people to hate on it??!! Certainly wouldn't put it past him!!