Turings Delirium

The setting Bolivia in the near future Miguel Turing Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber s latest target Kandinsky, a cyberhacktivist leader who is staging a war against both the government and the country s transnational corporations as part of an antiglobalization revolution As Turing finds himself drawn into a web of murder, intrigue, and deception, he begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once believed. Download Turings Delirium Author Edmundo Paz Soldán – kino-fada.fr What I learned from this book My creative writing professors were right They were right when they said not to write in present tense, they were correct when they stated that using a second person point of view was not the best way to go and they were dead on accurate when they rolled their eyes at the thought of a story written in first peson stream of consciousness I thought my professors were simply trying to stunt my overwhelming creativity Someone should have stunted this book My goodne What I learned from this book My creative writing professors were right They were right when they said not to write in present tense, they were correct when they stated that using a second person point of view was not the best way to go and they were dead on accurate when they rolled their eyes at the thought of a story written in first peson stream of consciousness I thought my professors were simply trying to stunt my overwhelming creativity Someone should have stunted this book My goodness, this is a prime example of how not to write Instead of professors telling you not to write this way they should just make you read this book show not tell heh,heh So of course, there were multiple points of view from different character...En general, el libro realiza la onda de William Gibson en Bolivia sugerida por la descripcion Yo no lo llamar a brillante, ya que juega un poco como pastiche un poco de Gibson, un poco de Borges, un poco de Garc a M rquez , un poco de Phil Dick, etc Adem s, no estoy convencido que todos los experimentos estil sticos y las diversas l neas argumentales se combinan efectivamente La mayor a de la acci n desplega durante los ltimos d as de la administraci n Montenegro El gobierno ha promulgado En general, el libro realiza la onda de William Gibson en Bolivia sugerida por la descripcion Yo no lo llamar a brillante, ya que juega un poco como pastiche un poco de Gibson, un poco de Borges, un poco de Garc a M rquez , un poco de Phil Dick, etc Adem s, no estoy convencido que todos los experimentos estil sticos y las diversas l neas argumentales se combinan efectivamente La mayor a de la acci n desplega durante los ltimos d as de la administraci n Montenegro El gobierno ha promulgado muchas de las reformas neoliberales, incluyendo la privatizaci n de los servicios p blicos El crisis empieza porque la gente se harta con la multinacional que dirige la compa a el ctrica y comienzan a demostrar publicamente Un grupo clandestino, dirigido por un hacker llamado Kandinsky, decide que esta sera la oportunidad perfecta para derrocar al presidente Oponiendolos es el servicio de seguridad del gobierno, inc...I picked this novel up because I wanted to broaden my horizons I noticed that I haven t read a book written by a Bolivian author, so I searched for Bolivian authors and found Edmundo Paz Sold n I decided to pick this book up as it sounded interesting It is after all, as the critics say, a book that would have been written if William Gibson were a...Turing s DeliriumEdmundo Paz Sold nJanuary, 2006The book takes place in Bolivia and it s about hackers and they form this group called the Black Chamber which is an organization that deciphers codes and messages What the Black Chamber does is they try to overthrow the government, making hackers represent revo...This is a hacker counter hacker story set in Bolivia, where the newly resurrected president hires an NSA official to set up the country s counter espionage cyber security unit Black Chamber The main thorn in the side is a computer terrorist named Kandinski Black Chamber has on its side a cryptanalyst with decades of experiencing tackling various types of codes And the game is on, with the inevitable mole inside Black Chamber, fevered dreams which feature the dreamer talking in first per This is a hacker counter hacker story set in Bolivia, where the newly resurrected president hires an NSA official to s...This is a book representing Bolivia in the 80 Books Around the World Book Club Some of the comments by GoodReads members were spot on While I did not dislike the book, I would not necessarily recommend it.A novel about the world of codes and code breakers set in Bolivia, Turing s Delerium is highly ambitious in its scope, but sadly can t quite live up to that ambition Nonetheless, it represents a worthy attempt Its narrative structure is unusual and intriguing It follows several different viewpoint characters, each with her or his own perspective on the crimes of state that have been exposed over the years by the code breakers of the clandestine Black Chamber, and that have served to maintai A novel about the world of codes and code breakers set in Bolivia, Turing s Delerium is highly ambitious in its scope, but sadly can t quite live up to that ambition Nonetheless, it represents a worthy attempt Its narrative structure is unusual and intriguing It follows several different viewpoint characters, each with her or his own perspective on the crimes of state that have been exposed over the years by the code breakers of the clandestine Black Chamber, and that have served to maintain dictatorial power in one form or another The characters include Albert, the dying founder of the organization his numb...This was a book that mixed high tech hacking, a Latin American country s movement from dictatorship to something akin to democracy Bolivia is setting , how to deal both personally and nationally with political violence committed by people who are still in power, or at least wield power, and grassroots movements It s a lot to cover and many writing techniques are deployed to move the story from start to finish.This book took me forever to get through This was in part due to my writing and not This was a book that mixed high tech hacking, a Latin American country s movement from dictatorship to something akin to democracy Bolivia is setting , how to deal both personally and nationally with political violence committed by people who are still in power, or at least wield power, and grassroots movements It s a lot to cover and many writing techniques are deployed to move the story from start to finish.This book took me forever to get through This was in part due to my writing and not wanting to get distracted by reading fiction Turns out, that hurt me I need to keep reading even when I m in the midst of heavy writing But, it couldn t be just that I m not sure if it was me, the translation original was in Spanish or the original author s story...Una at pica novela social Una apasionante trama de suspense, con el tel n de fondo de la crisis del neoliberalismo y las protestas contra la globalizaci n R o Fugitivo vive la semana decisiva de una revuelta popular contra la subida de las tarifas de energ a el ctrica hecha por una multinacional A las tradicionales manifestaciones callejeras, se suma una nueva forma de protesta para un nuevo siglo la guerra electr nica, los virus inform ticos En este enfrentamiento se entrecruzan los destin Una at pica novela social Una apasionante trama de suspense, con el tel n de fondo de la crisis del ...This is the first book I ve read in a long time I ve wanted to run and tell people about With a cast of cryptographers and hackers, I thought it was going to be Geek Lit a la Neal Stephenson s Cryptonomicon, or his better Snow Crash But this is the real deal, a work of real literary worth spun around the tech y topic I wish my Spanish were good enough to read it in the original it has a few clunky passages that I bet really sing as it was first written This work is so specific about techno This is the first book I ve read in a long time I ve wanted...

Turings Delirium
  • English
  • 25 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • 0618872590
  • Edmundo Paz Soldán
  • Turings Delirium