#spademan

[ajaysoctavio]

books i've read in 2019 ≡ shovel ready

❝ you’ll leave a trail of trash on this earth that will far exceed anything of worth you leave behind. for every ounce of heirloom, you leave a ton of landfill. ❞

— adam sternbergh

[jacscorner]

After studying more tokusatsu, I decided to redo Jango & Henry's superhero personas, Starman & Spademan respectively.

[vegemind]

...the boring old Internet survives mostly as an afterthought, kept alive like a public utility for people who can’t afford to tap in. So, like a decaying neighborhood, all the money in the Internet moved out. And, like a decaying neighborhood, the Internet is now mostly a refuge for poor folks and perverts, people in the shadows, by choice or not. Just a place where you can log on to advertise your junk, then swap it for someone else’s junk, then revel for a day in new junk.

Shovel Ready: A Spademan Novel

[messmeriz-ed]

First day of the #cramathon is done

and i’m almost halfway through the first book! I can’t believe how good this story is going. I am loving it. 

[theirresponsiblereader]

Opening Lines - Near Enemy

We all know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover (yet, publishing companies spend big bucks on cover design/art). But, the opening sentence(s)/paragraph(s) are fair game. Technically, I’m cheating here — I skipped the first eight lines (Chapter 1), this is from Chapter 2, but it’s my blog so I can ignore my own rules, right?

Dare you not to read the rest of the book

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This used to be…

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[goodtobegeeking]

Shovel Ready (Spademan #1) by Adam Sternbergh (book review).

Shovel Ready (Spademan #1) by Adam Sternbergh (book review).

Before dirty bombs turned the island of Manhattan into a ghost town, Spademan was a garbage man. After he lost his wife in the attack on Times Square, he turned to the escape of the limnosphere – a virtual reality that exceeds the functionality of the internet. To access the limnosphere, one requires special equipment. Expensive equipment. The rich have retreated there almost permanently, their…

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[theirresponsiblereader]

Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh

Quick Review: Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh; 3.5/5 Stars

Shovel Ready

by Adam Sternbergh

Hardcover, 256 pg Crown, 2014 Read: May 1 – 3, 2014

It’s the near future, NYC has been rendered nearly uninhabitable by terrorist attacks and most of those that are still there aren’t really in NYC — they’re permanently jacked in to a virtual reality, kept alive by IV feeding bags. (think of a dystopian vision of Ready Player One‘s OASIS)

One of the few not…

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