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Title: Author Interview - "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: weex on May 26, 2012, 02:11:28 AM "#agora - a novel?" is a fascinating 126-page story that follows the adventures of a young wannabe-cryptoanarchist, Bitcoin, certain illegal substances, and well... sex. Danny, the author, has agreed to
https://www.coindl.com/page/item/204 Your "#agora"-related comments/reviews/rants/ and diatribes are welcome. -weex Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: divergenta on May 26, 2012, 02:16:24 AM Nice. I'll read it 8)
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: ineededausername on May 26, 2012, 02:25:59 AM I love the :wq at the end ;D
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: weex on May 26, 2012, 02:38:05 AM I love the :wq at the end ;D Wow, you're fast! :PTitle: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: LightRider on May 26, 2012, 02:45:32 AM Thanks, will definitely check it out.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on May 26, 2012, 02:56:54 AM Im loving these free giveaways!
Great way to push CoinDL! Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: weex on May 26, 2012, 03:06:54 AM Im loving these free giveaways! My favorite part is getting to review all this stuff for free and I'm not just saying this. Bitcoin has attracted some very talented and creative people! Great way to push CoinDL! Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: BrightAnarchist on May 26, 2012, 03:12:30 AM Nice thanks, I'll take a read.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: bearbones on May 26, 2012, 04:23:05 AM Sweet. Any book with the word "fuckknuckle" on the first page can't be all bad. Thanks!
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: datafish on May 26, 2012, 04:25:15 AM Thanks for the freebie! I bought a book on regression analysis while I was there. :)
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: weex on May 26, 2012, 05:02:06 AM Thanks for the freebie! I bought a book on regression analysis while I was there. :) Can't think of a better literary pairing. May I suggest a vintage Max Min album with that?Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: LightRider on May 26, 2012, 09:08:07 AM After the first page, I didn't think I was going to enjoy it. 20 pages in, I don't want to stop reading it. It kind of reminds me of Daniel Suarez's work in Daemon and Freedomtm. Hopefully it maintains the pace and fun but informative tone through the next 100.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: rjk on May 26, 2012, 12:55:36 PM I tried to read it, but wasn't impressed. The writer seemed to want to talk about sex and anarchy at the cost of actual literary coherence.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: kangasbros on May 26, 2012, 02:05:20 PM Where is the sex part, I'll skip the rest.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: giszmo on May 26, 2012, 04:59:16 PM slightly too "educative" for my taste of an easy read. When the author invites you to follow some link twice per page, this gets kind of annoying. Instead of "on blabla.org/blabla/bla.html I found bla" I would prefer "I read bla" with a footnote that bla really exists or even more literary freedom on those references making them more exciting and an annex talking about all the actual sources. Reading the author is totally into one real thing that I don't like makes it harder to sympathize when he's into another thing I actually like ;)
Still I got to page 28 ;) Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: jwzguy on May 26, 2012, 10:10:36 PM Writing in present tense infuriates me, sorry. :-\
I like the site a lot, though!! Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: riX on May 26, 2012, 10:47:18 PM I just read 57% of the book while simultaneously watching Eurovision.. on my Kindle DX I bought for Bitcoins of course 8)
Good enough to finish.. Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: kiba on May 26, 2012, 11:21:50 PM This thread reminds me of a story I wrote about bitcoin. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-rising
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: nave on May 26, 2012, 11:24:51 PM Looks interesting, thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: LightRider on May 27, 2012, 01:14:19 AM Not too bad a story. A little too obsessed with sexuality, and obviously the whole thing is some anarchist fantasy, but not bad.
I am still looking forward to some speculative fiction about life in a resource based economy. Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: d6d4d59 on May 27, 2012, 02:09:33 AM Gold is a resource. So's cocaine.
Title: Re: Free for 24hrs. Get "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: Crypt_Current on May 27, 2012, 02:21:19 AM Good stuff; I shared it on FB.
Gold is a resource. So's cocaine. Resources, maybe... They're not universal resources like food and water, though. Gold and cocaine... one I give a shit about, the other I care about too much... Title: Re: Author Interview - "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: weex on May 27, 2012, 02:40:14 AM Thanks everyone for checking out the eBook! The 24 hours is over but now an interview with the author has been posted at CoinDL.onHover (new artist/author spotlight) (http://tumblr.coindl.com)
http://tumblr.coindl.com/post/23835985901/interview-with-danny-author-of-agora-a-novel Title: Re: Author Interview - "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: Trader Steve on May 27, 2012, 11:00:34 PM Downloaded and reading now...excellent!
Title: Re: Author Interview - "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: boonies4u on May 28, 2012, 06:19:53 AM OH He's that Denton! That makes so much sense now. HAHA ;D
Good read, though it certainly gave me a book list. Not complaining, I probably should have read them by now anyways. Title: Re: Author Interview - "#agora", a novel about a young, cryptoanarchist from CoinDL Post by: divergenta on May 28, 2012, 01:01:38 PM http://www.scribd.com/doc/95041961/agora
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