Circuits of the Wind A Legend of the Net Age Volume 1 eBook Michael Stutz
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An ambitious, sprawling and poetic coming-of-age novel told in three volumes, CIRCUITS OF THE WIND is the story of Ray Valentine, who grows up in the online underground of the '80s and '90s, looking for a connection that's always just a little out of reach, and learning all the lessons that the rest of us are only facing now.
VOLUME ONE of CIRCUITS OF THE WIND follows a young Raymond from his '70s childhood—and first gropings with the telephone—to the home computers and bulletin boards of the '80s, where he leads a double life as a wanderer of the wires. But when even his virtual best friend unplugs, Raymond might have to leave it, too—because isn't real life supposed to be offline?
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Circuits of the Wind A Legend of the Net Age Volume 1 eBook Michael Stutz
This is an interesting walk through a boy's journey to manhood and computerdom. I had a different experience but never even tried to hack. When computers first came out, I remember a hacker was someone who could not type and "hacked" at the keyboard. Whatever, it is a good story.Product details
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Circuits of the Wind A Legend of the Net Age Volume 1 eBook Michael Stutz Reviews
Anyone who shares my nostalgia for the phone and computer world of the late seventies and eighties, this book would be a compelling enough read for it's backdrop alone. I got into BBS systems, made pay phones ring themselves, read text files an all that...usually far enough behind everyone else that it wasn't relevant anymore, but still. Gratifyingly, though, this isn't all the book is. I got into the main character's early need for the wonder of the world, sought in the early hacker world, and felt for him as his sense of wonder changed more into a striving for human connection. It fails again and again for him, in a way that connected him to me as a reader. I'm not sure what to think entirely yet, knowing that this is only the first volume, but I definitely need to know where he goes from here. The book is complete on it's own, but I definitely feel that the story isn't finished yet. I'm eagerly turning to the second book.
Representatives of the author provided a free copy of this book for review purposes.
Circuits of the Wind A Legend of the Net Age
Author Michael Stutz
Genre Literary Bildungsroman
Rating 4 Stars
Circuits of the Wind is an intriguing coming-of-age story of both its main character and the Internet.
Summary
Young Ray Valentine finds himself disconnected from his life. The purchase of a computer with a modem allows him to explore the growing virtual world connected by telephones and computers. As he delves deeper into this new world, he will have to balance his life both online and offline.
Review
We've come to take the commercial and personal Internet for granted. Even children carry around tiny mobile computing devices that can easily access vast amount of the world's information with ease, and yet we complain about the ability to quickly stream YouTube videos.
Back in the 70s and 80s, the 'net began its shift from being mostly a government and academic entity. With the spread of things like Usenet, bulletin board services(BBSes), and, for that matter, personal computers, cyberspace became the domain of everyone.
Circuits of the Wind explores the early years of both a young man interested in all things computer and computer networking related and the "early teen" years of cyberspace itself. The book forms the first volume of a trilogy that follows both Ray and the net from early Usenet and BBSes to the dot.com mania.
The book is a psychological study of the kind of person who would want to spend hours a day chatting away and exploring on computer networks years before such things became ubiquitous and fairly easy. Ray, like many early users, was as fascinated by the technology and techniques of the networking as the actual practical uses.
This intense focus will likely, however, ultimately divide readers. There is no grand plot here, just the growth and exploration of a young man and the technology that fascinates him. In particular, the interesting juxtaposition of people using a new communications technology to open up their options, yet still feeling isolated is something that resonates in this age of social networking. I found these subjects interesting enough, but readers looking for something a bit more plot-oriented or less interested in the early history of cyberspace may be disappointed.
The writing style tends to be lyrical but verbose. In many books, this would had been distracting, but in this novel its effective, in that it does a good of reflecting the analytic mindset and detail-oriented focus of Ray.
Without a doubt, one of the worst books I've ever attempted to read. Early on, one sentence ran on for 1 1/2 pages, with lots of commas and semicolons. After reading the sentence over and over, I gave up and deleted the book.
Not much of a story, here, unless you're into the biography thing, because that's pretty much what it is. And not a very good one, at that. It reads too much like a documentary. Too much description, too little dialog, which is not very well done. Too contrived and not in form with the ages of the characters. A good story captures you with emotion and at least some semblance of humor or rebellion. There is none of that here. The author can write well enough, but the story is flat. I gave up.
I abandoned this book after 30% (82 pages). It is very difficult to read due to the long winded sentences, overuse of adjectives, and simply too many words to describe something that would take just a few. I knew it was time to try something else when I reached a paragraph that ran almost 2 pages (on my with a small font!).
The story is intriguing because I've lived through the chemistry sets, early radios, and because I too had an early Atari computer. But, I couldn't muscle my way through the prose.
The first two volumes of Circuits of the Wind capture what it was like to come of age during the early days of the information age. The author deals with universal themes related to the passage to adulthood, but does so in the unique context of the birth of the internet. He exposes the ironies associated with loneliness and alienation at the dawn of the era of universal connectedness. The author's writing is evocative and he displays real insights into the human condition. A number of the scenes he paints remind me of the work of Hesse.
This is an interesting walk through a boy's journey to manhood and computerdom. I had a different experience but never even tried to hack. When computers first came out, I remember a hacker was someone who could not type and "hacked" at the keyboard. Whatever, it is a good story.
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