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Bill
Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop
by Henry Beard, John Boswell, Ron Barrett
(Illustrator)
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PRICE: $11.16
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Description
Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret
Private Laptop is both a genuinely witty and inventive
swipe at the world's richest man and a masterwork of
book design. Each page is a folded-out laptop, with
jokes contained on the "screen." Here's a
sample, from a chain letter Gates is sending to Warren
Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, and others:
"...But
the President of South Korea deleted this E-mail message,
and his economy collapsed. Later, he managed to retrieve
it and sent it out, and the IMF gave his country a
$20 billion bailout. As soon as you receive this message,
wire one million dollars to the bank account next
to the name below, then add your own name to the list,
and send 10 identical E-mail messages to your fellow
moguls. Do not break the chain. Mike Milken failed
to reply to his E-mail message, and look what happened
to him!"
No
one has used the ubiquitous graphical user interface
as a comic canvas before, and the authors should be
commended for their cheeky, stylish innovation. The
book's joke-intensive screens include topic lines from
Bill Gates news groups, both pro and con; a letter encouraging
the Unabomber to correspond with his competitors; a
list of new software products--including the Cubicle
'98 office politics software ("BackStabber memo-writing
program with BlameShifter feature and FingerPointer
mouse hardware"); the Mafia's Web page; et cetera.
Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop is
great fun, and sure to cement this trio's reputation
as the masters of parody publishing. And it's much cheaper
than a laptop--for now, at least.
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