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 [fn:xf] But nothing is
 [fn:phreak] This movie is so old, that viewer is expected to know what a phreaker is!
+*** TODO Hackers (1995)
+
+There are movies which I absolutely despised when I first saw them.
+They were loud, abnoxious, made little sense.
+Some of them, with passing time, grew on me.
+
+Hackers is a 1995 movie about, well, hackers.
+We start with Dade, an 11 year old geek, being arrested for hacking and crashing over 1,5k computer systems.
+He is sentenced to the worst imaginable sentence - an judge impossed mandated ban on using computer system till he reaches 18 years of age.
+Somehow we don't care what happened during those years, as we jump 7 years in the future (which seem to be undefined "now" of 1990s).
+Dade is hacking once again, and as a result he joins a hacker group and becomes part of an conspiracy.
+
+Say what you will, /Hackers/ takes the hacker ethos pretty seriously and this is what espaced my teenage understanding.
+All main characters (using simply amazing handles, like Zero Cool or Cereal Killer) break into system for the fun of it.
+They are prosecuted by the govermnent and media portrayes them as dangerous individuals, but they are anything but malificicet.
+
+Now, the hacking scenes make close to zero sense - but that's hollywood for you.
+We haven't seen serious attempt at showing it before /Mr Robot/.
+Therefore, we can see past it.
+
+But can't see past the fashion.
+I have no idea /how/ anyone came with what we see here, but it's simply glorious.
+Just look!
+I refuse to believe, that this was not the official fashion of New York in the 90s.
+
+Also, the quotes.
+If there is a infinitelly quotable movie, it is Hackers.
+"/Hack the Planet/" or /"“There is no right and wrong. There's only fun and boring.”/ should be recognized by anyone working in IT.
+I may be wrong, but I think there are questions about /Hackers/ on CompTIA Security+ 
+
+Unfornatelly, there is a story here and it's not good.
+The main villian is trying to get rich and put the blame on our hackers.
+The plan makes little sense, that's one thing.
+But everything about that particular screams /fake/.
+He has the most over the top quotes and reactions - even if he has the only hacker-worthy keyboard to be seen here.
+
+/Hackers/ is a fun little movie, with a huge soul.
+It's dumb, loud and over-stylized.
+But it's also one the few movies which show the soul of a hacker.
+I think everyone should see it at least once.
+
+#+begin_quote
+You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity.
+#+end_quote
+
 
 ** Fantasy
 :PROPERTIES:
@@ -2816,6 +2861,49 @@ CLOSED: [2024-04-14 Sun 18:10]
 Witcher
 #+end_menu
 
+*** TODO Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, 1990)
+
+But in the dark days o 1990 Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman decided to co-write a book - /Good Omens/, which itself will be a parody of the /Omen/ horror movie.
+It was quite the popular movie back then, but nowaydays it may be a bit forgotten.
+
+Pratchet & Gaiman seem like a great combo.
+The first one is a great story /teller/, while the later tend to privide better /stories/.
+They are also both imagitable authors of speculative fiction.
+
+The general idea of the story of the book follows the one from the book: due to satanits shananings, antichrist is born to a family in power.
+The end of times in near.
+But, unlike the movie, it is not be stopped by a detective but by an unlikely pair of an angel and and a daemon.
+None of the wants to see the apocalypse, so they join forces to stop the antichrist - who turns out to be quite a nice kid.
+
+for me a computer nerd, the process of writing such book fascinates me.
+It's 1990 so no cooperative tooling exists yet, therefor Terry and Neil sent discettes to each other.
+How cool is that!
+
+#+begin_quote
+I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens.
+It was fairly easy to keep track of because of the way we sent disks to one another, and because I was Keeper of the Official Master Copy I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens. 
+-- Terry Pratchett
+#+end_quote
+
+and it shows.
+/Good Omens/ does not read like joint venture, it's distincly Pratchett.
+You get Gaimaon love for the macabre and over-convoluted story, but if he was removed the cover I woud have never guessed.
+There is a scene of mass shooting, which is something fitting /American Gods/  but it's written like we're in Ankh-Morpork.
+
+It's not part of the /Discworld/ world, but on the surface it could have easily been. 
+The humor is there, the unlreated description which turn out be introduction to related thingys and so on.
+But the world of /Discworld/ is more interesteing, crazier.
+In that series we've got insane world and insane characters which try to remain sane.
+/Good Omen/ however happens in our, boring world and most of the characters are "normal", but they act insane.
+But /Discworld/ has its own multiverse, so it fits.
+
+But since it's got two autors, it a bit on the longer side.
+Just enough to overstay its welcome.
+Pratchett is a master of the word, but his stories are rarely interesting - and I was never a fan of Gaiman.
+I didn't found what is told here much interesting, I was not curious how they will stop the apocalypse.
+Nothing unexpected happened.
+If it was 2/3 of the current size, if some of the crust was removed, it would be a better book, as the general idea is very cool.
+But even at current state it's very enjoyable and well worth the read /if/ you like Pratchett's style.
 
 ** Modern Games
 :PROPERTIES:
@@ -3318,3 +3406,34 @@ If anything, it's /Magnum P.I./ of the genre.
 
 [fn:cover] or whatever your edition has
 [fn:tolkien] hello Tolkien
+
+
+
+*** TODO Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny, 1972)
+The fastest fantasy in the wild west continues where we left off.
+Corwin espaped his prison, and armed with newly regrown eyes, he is ready for his revange.
+
+/Chronicles of Amber/ are like nothing I've ever read.
+Mostly because I've never been into fantasy, but still.
+At no point of /Guns of Avalon/ nor of /Nine Princes in Amber/ have I felt that I'm reading a published book.
+It's rather what I would imagine as a synopsis of the book.
+
+Characters? Screw them, they ony serve a purpose.
+The world? Screw it, let's create it as we go.
+Magic system? I am sure not even Zelazny has any idea how it works at this point.
+
+But at the same time I can't stop reading it.
+From outside, those two books I've finished sound like pulp.
+But there is so much going on, and those things happen fast.
+
+Corwin's goal this time is to buy carabins from Royal Air Force and retake Amber.
+Yup - this magical being, from an eternal family, who is able to travel between dimensions[fn:shadows], whose eyes just regrown, is planning to retake a magical land using firearms.
+And somehow it all makes sense.
+
+/Guns/ serve as direct continuation of the first book, but the ending paints a different route the series seems to be heading.
+I am very much invested and I interested what's going to happen.
+I should hate this book, but I love it.
+
+Zelazny, you were a strange writer indeed.
+
+[fn:shadows] or whatever Shadows are