Things just go downhill from here, don’t they… 
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Yep.
Excellent book. Based ending🤙🏅
Brilliant book
Yep…
I’m sure you will appreciate visualizing all the areas in New York the book goes through. Made it all the more eerie.
Great read!
We’ll be OK. The Mandibles didn’t have #Bitcoin
They mentioned it once and give it failed. I was really hoping Shriver included it more in her book.
I just got to that part. Did the book say it failed? I thought it was more ambiguous than that. Anyway, for a novel written before 2016, it was an interesting footnote. No work of fiction I’ve read or seen has ever gotten it right.
They didn't talk a out it but once. I'm assuming it failed otherwise it would have been a main subject in the plot.
Correct. The author wrote it out of existence with a one-liner:
“The dollar is a historied currency that’s stabilized the international economy for over a century, Wilbur. The bancor is an upstart pretender whose constraints are unworkably strict. We just have to hold our nerve. After all—look at what happened to bitcoin.”
IMO, Shriver had to write #Bitcoin out of existence to tell the story she was creating. The story with Bitcoin would have been quite different.
Great read. Enjoy.
The book in a meme.
Happy ending 🙂