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PopCo
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.
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Mimi28
Popco. Scarlett Thomas | Scarlett Thomas
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Hey Everyone!! I went from being and English major to being kinda obsessed with computers so this Amazon pick got me also. It‘s over 500 pages so it will take me a while.

batsy Hey! Hope you're doing well 😊 I loved this book, hope you enjoy it too! 1y
Mimi28 @batsy Hey! I‘m doing alright, thanks. How are you? Thanks for the well wishes 😊I saw your review of this book and it made me want to read it even more! Lol 1y
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Tonton
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Pickpick

Alice works for a cutting edge toy company as a product designer. She‘s peculiar in a very good way, burdened with family secrets. Code breaking , maths, puzzles, hidden treasure, identity, and skewering of how marketing/branding influence consumer lifestyles and culture. My mentor at the ad agency I worked for: “We don‘t sell products, we sell dreams.” Can be scary. All techniques in the book are actually practiced. Alice breaks free; #Resist!

batsy I love this book! 💜 6y
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Kboltz
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Bailedbailed

I really really tries but this book never gets going. Thought it had a different storyline with codes and toy marketing but the story never gets going. I even gave it 200 pages🤨

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readinginthedark
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Did the #funkopopyourself thing but tweaked it as suggested by @kspenmoll and @Riveted_Reader_Melissa . Definitely more accurate than the other backgrounds!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I like it! Much more realistic! 👍 7y
mrozzz 😂🤣👌🏻 7y
kspenmoll This is great!!! 😁 7y
KirstieE Perfect ! Love it ! Thanks for sharing 🤗 #mypopfunko 7y
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batsy
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Alice Butler is a toy and #puzzle developer. Here, she is reminiscing about her precocious young self having a conversation with her cryptographer/logician grandparents about the Epimenides paradox. #CleverPeopleConversations #QuotsyNov17 @TK-421

RaimeyGallant My mind is running in circles. 7y
batsy @RaimeyGallant I know, right 😂 7y
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mcipher
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Somebody decided that the couch is an excellent scratching post, so now both kitties have stylish pink plastic toenails. 💅 Also, this book is fascinating! The codes and history and weird marketing facts and even the 2009 pop culture references are fantastic and really have me thinking. 👍

cariashley Do those plastic toenails actually stay on?? I feel like my cats would run around like demons to get them off (and then swallow them and throw them up 🙄) 7y
Captivatedbybooks @cariashley my coworker says they do but i still am skeptical too 7y
mcipher @cariashley They work pretty well. A determined cat can pull them off, especially if you didn‘t glue them well or they‘re on for a while, but we‘ve had decent luck. I‘m just bad about replacing them because holding down a cat to glue on toenails isn‘t really fun. (And I haven‘t seen any get swallowed, but we do find them on the floor a lot). 7y
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mcipher @Captivatedbybooks My older kitty has has them for a couple years and I live/hate them. See above re: work well/pain to put on. 😊 7y
cariashley @mcipher oh wow they get GLUED on, interesting! I made the switch to distressed wood and high performance microfiber for most of my furniture because of the cats, but this would definitely help regardless! 7y
mcipher @cariashley Yup - it‘s strong glue, too. I‘ve stuck my fingers together a few times. And my laptop got some on the back that is now part of it. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 7y
CouronneDhiver Such a cutie! 7y
bookwrm526 We tried that once with my cat, but he made it entirely too difficult...and painful 7y
mcipher @bookwrm526 I‘m hoping starting her young will help! 7y
mcipher @CouronneDhiver Thanks! 😻 7y
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mcipher
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Up next by recommendation from @batsy It sounds fun and weird and I love the cover!

Ms_T That‘s a Chucky doll if ever I saw one 😜 7y
mcipher @Ms_T 😂 I think it‘s “technically” a kewpie doll. But creepy for sure! 7y
batsy Cool! I hope you enjoy it ☺️ 7y
mcipher @batsy I am so far - and I‘m loving the codes! Those are some of my favorite types of puzzles, even though I‘m not great at them. Still fun. 👍 7y
batsy @mcipher Same! I love them and love reading about them though I don't quite have the aptitude at solving them 😆 7y
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BarbaraJean
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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This works for #onomatopoeia, right? #TBR #jubilantjuly

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batsy
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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#amazingcover I love Scarlett Thomas. In this book she deftly weaves math, code-breaking, and corporate marketing into a narrative that also involves hidden treasure and a romance. It made me consider again the question: what do we buy when we buy something and how does it tap into what we want to convey about ourselves? The depiction of the Thought Camp training for marketers was chilling. Smart and absorbing. #ReadingWomenMonth @thereadingwomen

REPollock Does it sustain its strength all the way through? I read this author's book "The End of Mr. Y" and loved the beginning but felt like it spiraled out into crumminess. 7y
batsy @REPollock I loved Mr. Y too, I think that spiralling was essential to the book's dive into the weird portal thingy, but this is I feel structural tighter and leaner. It's definitely a more cohesive novel. 7y
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ReadingEnvy
PopCo | Scarlett Thomas
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Reading Envy Podcast 067: Rain and Readability. We also discuss the Man Booker Prize. bit.ly/2cbGVs3

Marchpane I just subscribed and am listening now! The Teffi book sounds intriguing I am going to track it down 👍 8y
ReadingEnvy @Marchpane hooray! I really liked the Teffi. I saw another set of her writings, short stories I think, translated by nyrb so I will check it out I think. 8y
Marchpane @ReadingEnvy went looking for the Teffi and fell down an Internet rabbit hole looking at other NYRB classics and now it's bedtime! Whoops! 8y
LeahBergen I just finally read Lady Susan and loved it! 8y
ReadingEnvy @LeahBergen it was so funny! 8y
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