![]() ![]() ![]() There’s doesn’t seem to be “one plot” that would advance, instead there’s diary-like snippets of people describing their thoughts, situations, observations and various assumptions about the underlying logic, hierarchy and somewhat superficial world view of the geeks, or “serfs”. ‘ Bill‘ is referred to in the book in many places. Some display a disliking to lot of the ethos around the Campus. professionals involved with software creation. The storyline is told by the fictious people whole live in Microsoft campus. In fact, starting to read the book for the second time, it’s no wonder that I didn’t have an exact memory of the “plot” exactly due to the fact that it may not have one. In fact this is one of my first reviews, I guess, apart from those obligatory school things everyone does in the their teens. I haven’t been a big review enthusiasta up until now. But books can be ‘good’ in so many ways, and it’s really personal. As you may know, I’m a software developer, lifelong geek (from age 6 onwards) and a devout lover of good books. ![]() So it’s a refreshing thing to read the book again. I frankly don’t remember anything from the first round of reading “Microserfs”. The excitement of getting a new look at this legendary book! Just recently a black plastic bag arrived in my mail - with the Amazon’ish “address and content” label printed on it. (Oh that magic turn-of-the-millennium IT hype!) I read the book a long time ago, perhaps somewhere around 2000. ![]()
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