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“A veritable piñata of a book, which when smashed by the reader’s enthusiastic attention, showers upon him everything from the history of useless roulette systems to the latest developments in chaos theory.” —The New York Times “An astonishing and fascinating tale of scientific heroism.” —Richard Dawkins “Bass has done the best job so far of capturing the marriage of technical imagination and the communal coziness that gave birth to Silicon Valley.” —Los Angeles Times
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About the Author
Thomas Bass was a member of the group whose adventures are chronicled in The Eudaemonic Pie. He writes for The New Yorker, Wired, and other magazines. He lives in New York and Paris.
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Product details
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Open Road Distribution; Reprint edition (December 20, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1504040694
ISBN-13: 978-1504040693
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
16 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#868,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is not a technical manual. It does not provide the differential equations which govern roulette, much less provide the algorithms for computer code to solve these simultaneous equations and predict the outcome of a roulette game. Does the author know these things? Maybe, but that would make a much less interesting story.This is the story of a group of brilliant and odd characters who discover the limitations chaos imposes on logic, reason, and community. Their goal was to create a utopian society funded by profits from gambling. Well, that's life.
I first heard about this book during fall semester 1991 from a fellow math grad student at the University of Texas at Austin who had just moved into our way-too-cozy little RL Moore Hall (RLM) office of three. It was my sixth and last semester there. I was on my way out of the Ph.D. program without any new titles attached to my name, or special paper to flash at prospective employers. With money short, that last semester I slept nights in the office on a surprisingly comfortable bench intended solely for day visits from students and colleagues.*It was with this backdrop of living in Hotel RLM and experiencing a renewed kinship with the Beatles lyric "Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go, nowhere to go," that I checked the book out of the university library and spent the next few gorgeous November afternoons lost in its pages on the South Mall, with a view of the Texas State Capitol building a mile to the south. Aged 32, I had still never been to a casino in my life (on a solo cross-country motorcycle trip six years earlier I'd stopped for gas, and gas only, on my way through Las Vegas).This 1991 read still ranks among my most enjoyable of all time. I disagree with the author-ragging that's gone on in many of the comments here. Bass clearly put a lot of care and effort into the presentation. Upon reread, I still find it to be an inspired work of art and very well-written book.The only minor thing I've noticed (in the paperback version, anyway) to really complain about are a few typos here and there that jump right out (e.g., "perennnially"). It seems a bit ironic given the subject material, that digital spell checkers evidently weren't used to copyedit the author's work.A friend of mine has a son who is currently a high school senior with stellar grades at one of the best-ranked schools in California. He has his sights set on a career in engineering. With his top choice being Stanford, I believe the paperback (despite its typos) will make the perfect graduation gift.*As of 1991 anyway, the beauty of RLM lay not in its physical appearance (this enormous building is actually quite ugly), but in the fact that it housed not one, but at least two separate shower stalls hidden away in restrooms in remote areas where few would ever discover them. I still owe my colleague Fred a debt of gratitude for revealing their existence to me upon hearing where I was sleeping that semester.
The criticisms of other reviewers notwithstanding, I liked the book. I read it when originally published and was more irritated by the minor factual errors (for example, in one place the author refers to the "Intel 6502" as the microprocessor powering the KIM-1 -- any self-respecting computer geek will know MOS, not Intel, made the original 65XX line of microprocessors) than by the style. On a recent re-reading I found those errors less annoying and enjoyed the story of a not atypical bunch of nerds from that time period who got more intrigued by the technology and science than ultimately achieving their business goal. But they had a fun trip -- that's what makes this a great read for fans of computing history. Particularly if you were one of those science/computing nerds of the 60s, 70s, or 80s you'll likely enjoy this book -- for those people at least this book is worth a quick read.
One of the best cyber stories ever. It reads with the gravity of good fiction, but is al the more satisfying for being true.
- Love this story! There is some validity in the reviews that critique the pace/style of the writing. However, I read it back in the early 90s, and the fact that it is still a vivid recollection counts for something. The advantage of time passage in analysis is better context and objectivity. Of course the disadvantage is that the details are not fresh. Probably I have forgotten minor irritations with style, while the strongly positive impression lingers. I do not give 5 stars lightly; though in this case the rating is more for the intrinsic wonder of the tale more than the technical adeptness in the telling.- The story is ultimately not about the goal, not about winning or losing or beating the house. Its really about the journeying. A unique shared human experience of some ordinary yet extraordinary people in ordinary yet extraordinary times. The ordinary draws the reader in with a continual reminder that it's a true story, magnifying the extraordinary nature of events. Somehow I found it intensely compelling to follow the characters and realize that in the same month I was, say, starting a newspaper route or trying to make the varsity soccer team, these offbeat-yet-practical, idealistic-yet-enterprising, brilliant-yet-sidetracked, anachronistic hippie-tinged grad students were mathematically modeling a roulette table in their central california bungalow or troubleshooting a shock-giving computer taped to their body in a casino bathroom hoping security won't find them out. Its a human story because its about about creativity, determination, curiosity, fear, motivation, joy, friendship and pain. Its a techno-geek-as-hero story as they blaze trails at the forefront of computer technology before you could even think about buying a TRS-80, much less a Commodore 64. I think Azeel's review quite accurately hints at a successful fusion of eclectic but fascinating elements.- Is the book too long? Should the pace be quicker? Perhaps, but the bottom line is it works. Some other stories may be generally comparable as far as being in the category of true story of a group on some venture (e.g. Fullness of Wings by Dorsey) but Eudaemonic Pie is different than anything else I've read. Partially this is because the slice of time and place in the silicon valley spanning the era of post Vietnam-disco-hostage crisis-Reaganomics is different. It's not for everyone, if you don't give it a try you may miss out on a flavor not to be served anywhere else.
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