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I started this book because City Lights has about 1000 copies of it.

I love any book about San Francisco. Even just when it's referenced or when it's the backdrop of stories.I love living here and I love the city so much that when it's loved by someone else, it just makes me happy.

That being said, I did not like this books that much. I like the general storyline of a weird book store that has that has a secret that the main character has to solve. San Francisco is a great place to have that story, so many of the homes are so old and creepy and beautiful. I think it's a perfect set up. That being said, they fell victim to the Silicon Valley mindset.

So much of this book was just talking about Google and raving about Google and I just really did not like that. The society was so old and beautiful, and I like that Google didn't solve it, but I didn't like how intertwined it was into the story. I like the hacker guy that I can't remember his name but other than that I did not love the “googlers” (that's what they got them in the book)

Overall, I'm glad I read it. It was fun and interesting and I liked how deep the world felt. I like the meaning at the end and I think it wrapped up pretty. That being said, I think it lost points on missing out on how beautiful and wonderful San Francisco is in a local sense rather than just being a home of silicon valley Idiots.

3.2