You, Austin Grossman
You, Austin Grossman
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You

Author: Austin Grossman

Narrator: Will Collyer

Unabridged: 13 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2013


Synopsis

When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, his strangest and most gifted friend, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit.

As the company's revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a software glitch, Russell finds himself in a race to save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care about. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch appears -- and soon, Russell comes to realize there's much more is at stake than just one software company's bottom line.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Myke on April 25, 2013

I doubt Mr. Grossman is thrilled to be constantly compared to Ernie Cline's READY PLAYER ONE. Well, he can rest easy here. The two books are night and day, matched only in their root: the cultural debt we owe to video games. YOU is partly a history of game design, partly a crash course in game mecha......more

Goodreads review by Louise on April 30, 2013

An account of making video games at a fictional video game company. This sounds right up my alley, right? Unfortunately, it fell short of my high expectations. The writing is noticeably sloppy at times, like when the narrator somehow knows everything another character is thinking, feeling, and seein......more

Goodreads review by Kara on August 13, 2013

I missed my Xbox while I was in England. I had access to one for the first half the year, during which time I managed to be completely disappointed by Assassin’s Creed 3. Then I moved, and Xbox-playing became a faded memory for a while. So when I came back home for the summer, one of the first thing......more

Goodreads review by Nayad on August 31, 2013

I went into reading this book with high hopes, because I thought a novel about making video games, with a mystery involved, would be interesting. But... The first problem is that whoever wrote the jacket copy made false promises. The main character, Russell, gets a job with old high school friends at......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 10, 2013

You surprised me. I don't mean that it surprised me in that it was better or worse than I expected; I loved Soon I Will Be Invincible and the buzz around the book gave me the impression that it would be a good read. Austin Grossman's You surprised me because it didn't take the easy roads, the handy e......more


Quotes

Praise for SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE:

"Imaginative. Achingly real. An admirable addition to the genre. "—The New York Times Book Review