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Summary: ... book
Review: While I realize the book is not fiction, Kaplan violates a rather basic tenet of story-writing: making the protaganist (himself) even somewhat likeable. While it's clear he enjoys playing the bad [guy], you can only make allusions to excrement so many times before the whole exercise becomes painful.Too bad -- the tales of dotcom demise themselves would have been interesting, if only someone else had written them up.
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Summary: Poor Editing Overshadows Sharp Analysis of Dotcom Bubble
Review: Kaplan's acerbic, concise analysis of failed dotcom business plans is often brilliant, and right on track. However, due to the worst editing you will ever see, the book is chocc-full of infantile, gratuitous swearing and sexual allusions.It's as painful and tedious to sit through as any movie made by MTV's Tom Green. Kaplan's firtst maturbation joke was not funny; neither was the 20th, or any in between. Humorous swearing is an art - think of Chris Rock - but Kaplan is no artist. His swearing is childish, excessive, obnoxious and pathetic. A good editor would have spent the weekend removing 95% of the swearing, and all of the sophomoric sexual nonsense, and put in a chapter on how Enron lost $1 billion on brokering broadband and Video-on-Demand. The result would have been a legitimate book. It's a shame that Kaplan's book won't play in flyover country. I would love to see Mr. Kaplan dishing dirt with the likes of Maria Bartoromo, Ron Insana and other dotcom hucksters on network tv. But the raunchy-yet-unfunny nature of this book will keep him out of the mainstream. That's a pity, because Kaplan does have something to say.
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Summary: a funny read
Review: Look people, this is meant to be an amusing (and informative) look at the dot com blowup. That it accomplishes. It's not Shakespeare and isn't meant to be. I think most readers who go in with that expectation will find this a very entertaining book, especially those unfamiliar with why the bubble burst in the first place.
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Summary: Groundbreaking
Review: People who criticize this book for overlapping with Phil's site either can't read or have bad memories. This book is a terrific resource, filled with great little anecdotes and information, a must have for any dotcom worker or dotcom victim. My hope is that there is a sequal.
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Summary: Absolute Garbage
Review: This is basically a text dump of a bunch of stuff you can get on the website anyway... it is not a particularly good read, either. Stay away.
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Summary: Just plain bad!
Review: If you must read.. read in the book store and toss it on your way out. Don't expect King Lear here. This book is so bad that the fact that it is selling well scares me. Are we as Americans really that stupid or are we just a country of skate board riding baboons? Avoid this book! It is written by the someone profoundly intent on making money on cheese and sleaze. Don't look for any vestiges of class here. In 10 years America will be well into the slippery slope down to ignorance and apathy.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: If you're looking for some long, drawn out justification of the whole dot-com thing, look elsewhere. Philip J. Kaplan simply tells it like it is -- the ideas really WERE that stupid! Kaplan's explanations of what happened are right on target, and the book had me laughing out loud quite a few times. A fun, informative, and quick read. Anyone starting their own business should be REQUIRED to read this book.
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Summary: F'd Company
Review: I'd love to read this book since I have been down sized and have a lot of time on my hands, but how can we buy a books when we are all out of work?
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Summary: Like the Website, Except Portable for Bathroom Reading
Review: Philip J. Kaplan, of F**kedcompany.com fame, has gathered together very short snippets of spectacular dot-com flameouts (as per the sub-title), in F'd Companies. These pieces are funny, vulgar and sized just right for bathroom reading. Fans of the website will have seen most of these before and enjoy them all gathered together and others may become fans of the website through this book. There is no insight into the disastrous dot-bomb years and nothing should strike the reader as wisdom. It is mainly pointing fingers and laughing at the insanity of it all. Some readers will be turned off by the authors continual reference to touching himself and other such tidbits thrown in but he would not be having a good day if he did not offend someone. It is more fun than it deserves to be.
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Summary: Capitolizing .com failures
Review: ...His writing is absolutely terrible and it is quite obvious the the publisher printed this book to cash in on Kaplan's sudo Internet fame. However, the underlying theme of the book (if you can deal with the crudeness) is actually somewhat interesting. Its just too bad someone like Kaplan had to do this and not a credible author.
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