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The Accidental Billionaires

Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

By Ben Mezrich

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| Paperback | 9780099551232

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Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students.Continue

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The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich

As subtitles go, Sex, Money, Betrayal... is the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. And, yet, that's exactly ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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‘It’s kind of like Facebook, but in person,’ a Boston woman says of the camping ground where her friends take holidays. Two San Francisco teens vow to use Facebook just once a month; ‘It’s like any other addiction,’ a psychologist tells the New York ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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I picked this book up in the airport having been captivated from watching the film. With a social network that has truly transformed the way humans connect today and of course which has affected myself, I could not put down this book detailing the fast-paced life of the founders of facebook. While i ... (continue)

I picked this book up in the airport having been captivated from watching the film. With a social network that has truly transformed the way humans connect today and of course which has affected myself, I could not put down this book detailing the fast-paced life of the founders of facebook. While it is a non-ficton book the prose is written as if it were fiction. The storyline captivates and the grabs the reader in its short pages. Each character involved in the creation of facebook is duly mentioned, each allowed to evolve and give their own side of the story. This book shows that despite the high life and money and the populairty of facebook, this is very much a real story, affecting friendship as it stands.

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Funky Chick said on Jul 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

Poor edition

It is not really the best edition ever. Print is quality poor and paper is cheap.
The novell is fine. I am keep on reading.

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Marco Fabbri said on Feb 28, 2011 | Add your feedback

Quite engaging book, sometimes you see the hand of the writer making up some scenes, but for the most parts it is a good book, and a pretty damn good story

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mp3sii said on Nov 11, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

This is the book that "The Social Network" movie is based on. Popular trash. I got a rough idea about how Facebook got started, but no more than simply reading a wikipedia article. The characters were stereotypical college kids and the author focused on girls and parties. I didn't get any insight on ... (continue)

This is the book that "The Social Network" movie is based on. Popular trash. I got a rough idea about how Facebook got started, but no more than simply reading a wikipedia article. The characters were stereotypical college kids and the author focused on girls and parties. I didn't get any insight on any of the characters. Perhaps there is no insight -- they were in the right place at the right time, but more likely it was the horrible writing. The most common phrase in the book was: "It was fucking awesome." Pathetic. There was no depth, and not much of a story. This is one of those rare cases where the movie will be better than the book. It can't be much worse.

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Victor Lyuboslavsky said on Oct 23, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

The book tells me the foundation of Facebook. I opened my facebook account after reading it.

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Sunny Elf said on Mar 20, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback