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The e-mail says "Hi, I saw this and thought of you. Check it out." When the attachment, Leela.exe, is opened, a radiant image of 21-year-old Bollywood starlet Leela Zahir dances on the screen. Meanwhile, behind the scenes in the guts of the computer, a nasty virus takes root. Arjun Mehta, the timid, unlucky antihero of Kunzru’s newest witty and wicked creation (after The Impressionist), released the virus in a desperate attempt to regain his job at a global securities company. Instead, his creation ends up causing billions of dollars in damages and disrupting the lives of young British entrepreneur Guy Swift, his glamorous girlfriend Gabriella and the actual starlet, Leela Zahir. It’s often the kiss of death to have an author narrate his or her own audiobook—not so in Kunzru’s case. His reading is strong, yet subtle. Although he does not give each of his complex characters their own identifiable voice (except when a character hails from a different country), he makes up for that fact with his dramatic prowess. Each line of dialogue is not read so much as spoken, with all the inflection and emotional impact that a talented actor would convey. This is a thrilling audio experience and an intelligent look at contemporary culture gone awry.
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Adult/High School–Arjun Mehta, computer programmer and extreme Bollywood fan, dreams of a different life than his native India offers him. It seems like magic when a placement service in the U.S. offers to fly him to the states and help him find a job. After several weeks in limbo, he takes a position with a software developer specializing in virus protection. He befriends Chris, a heavily tattooed, bisexual rock-and-roll chick who takes pity on him. She exposes clueless Arjun to pieces of U.S. culture that challenge him in ways that are both humorous and thought-provoking. After a sexual interlude that ends his friendship with her, Arjun finds himself on a list of employees to be laid off. In desperation, he creates a computer virus around the image of a popular Bollywood star and unleashes it on the Internet. He plans to present a solution for it, making money for his company, saving his job, and turning himself into a hero. But, of course, things go awry as the virus takes on a life of its own. Kunzru's details of the technology are thrilling and accessible, bringing to mind William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (Ace, 1984). The point of view switches to other characters to show the effects of the virus on a more personal level. Ultimately, this is a mainstream-style novel with strong characters and situations that has just enough science-fiction elements to satisfy readers of both genres.–Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
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4.0�toiles sur 5 Gripping Reading, Juil 24 2004

Par	Samir Panday (Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Transmission (Hardcover)

Excellent book. Good Pace just like his previous book Impressionist.

i am looking forward to his next novel.

Way to go Hari !!

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Beware Compu Geeks, Juil 7 2004

Par	Ilaxi S. Patel "Editor, kidsfreesouls.com & A... (India) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Transmission (Hardcover)

I missed out the read of Hari Kunzru's debut 'The Impressionist' but managed to catch up the TV Interview of Hari and grabbed the copy of 'Transmission' - a weave into cyberyarn with combination of reality and virtuality. Transmission manages to charm the reader with its lucid wit of words, which is a vivid tale of the twin forces mutating the 21st century world of globalization and information technology. Kunzru, a perfect story teller's 'Transmission' is a story about men and women tossed around by global forces that are beyond their or for that matter, anyone's control or even understanding. The impulse of the new generation is sometimes money, sometimes sex or sometimes epidemic - the story narrates the journey of a computer engineer Arjun Mehta, who has been body-shopped to the US to be a cheap cyber-coolie, lost in an alien culture and finally sacked from software security firm. Quite a real life experience of many computer engineers, indeed. As the characters lead for disaster, salvation and transformation, Hari shows their lives as it is and his empathy is quite obvious. This reveals a deep observant Hari, a former wired correspondent, with lucent writing as he involves the reader with a 384 pages read and up in Top Ten Charts, just with a second release. A must read for day dreaming Indian Computer Geeks who aspires to create wealth in silicon valley, in the most advanced dominant culture. A good 'Free time' read at leisure.

* If this is a repeat review, please excuse!

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4.0�toiles sur 5 'Beware' Indian Compu Geeks!, Juil 7 2004

Par	Ilaxi S. Patel "Editor, kidsfreesouls.com & A... (India) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Transmission (Hardcover)

I missed out the read of Hari Kunzru's debut 'The Impressionist' but managed to catch up the TV Interview of Hari and grabbed the copy of 'Transmission' - a weave into cyberyarn with combination of reality and virtuality. Transmission manages to charm the reader with its lucid wit of words, which is a vivid tale of the twin forces mutating the 21st century world of globalization and information technology. Kunzru, a perfect story teller's 'Transmission' is a story about men and women tossed around by global forces that are beyond their or for that matter, anyone's control or even understanding. The impulse of the new generation is sometimes money, sometimes sex or sometimes epidemic - the story narrates the journey of a computer engineer Arjun Mehta, who has been body-shopped to the US to be a cheap cyber-coolie, lost in an alien culture and finally sacked from software security firm. Quite a real life experience of many computer engineers, indeed. As the characters lead for disaster, salvation and transformation, Hari shows their lives as it is and his empathy is quite obvious. This reveals a deep observant Hari, a former wired correspondent, with lucent writing as he involves the reader with a 384 pages read and up in Top Ten Charts, just with a second release. A must read for day dreaming Indian Computer Geeks who aspires to create wealth in silicon valley, in the most advanced dominant culture. A good 'Free time' read at leisure.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 slow great slow
This is the first book I have read from this author. I thought the story line a bit far fetched( but it is a nice yarn), the charachter development needed about 100 more pages... Read more

Publi� le Jui 24 2004 par Badri Radhakrishnan

5.0�toiles sur 5 Ambition, anxiety, and alienation in a globalized world
With his follow-up effort to "The Impressionist," Kunzru has abandoned the British colonialism of Conrad and Kipling for the American neo-imperialism of Richard Powers... Read more

Publi� le Jui 22 2004 par D. Cloyce Smith

3.0�toiles sur 5 Beyond the static, the information in this novel is vital
Computers, writes Hari Kunzru in his new novel TRANSMISSION, have "always terrorized [users] in small ways, by crashing, hanging, demanding meaningless upgrades or simply... Read more

Publi� le Jui 20 2004 par Bookreporter.com