Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
Blake Crouch
Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science Fiction - Action & Adventure
Published Jun 27, 2023

"The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times
bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion-currently in
development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin
Partners

"You are the next step in human evolution."

"At first, Logan Ramsay isn't sure if anything's different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

"But before long, he can't deny it: Something's happening to his brain. To his body. He's starting to see the world, and those around him-even those he loves most-in whole new ways.

"The truth is, Logan's genome has been hacked. And there's a reason he's been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

"Worse still, what's happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large-at a terrifying cost.

"Because of his new abilities, Logan's the one person in the world capable of stopping what's been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he'll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

"And even as he's fighting, he can't help wondering: what if humanity's only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

"Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man's thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity-and our boundless potential.

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Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 11 2023 10:09 pm

> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
> Blake Crouch
> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science Fiction

man people dont read anymore
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MR> Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
MR> By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 11 2023 10:09 pm

> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
> Blake Crouch
> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science Fiction

MR> man people dont read anymore

Maybe not the people that *YOU* know and associate with.

Just the opposite for many of us.

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Hello MRO!

** On Wednesday 12.07.23 - 09:03, MRO wrote to Ogg:

M> Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
M> By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 11 2023 10:09 pm

>> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
>> Blake Crouch
>> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
>> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science
>> Fiction

M> man people dont read anymore

people == MRO ?

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Og> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
Og> Blake Crouch
Og> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
Og> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science
Og> Fiction - Action & Adventure Published Jun 27, 2023

Og> "The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times
Og> bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion-currently in
Og> development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin
Og> Partners

Og> "You are the next step in human evolution."

Interesting. Blake Crouch wrote a couple of other books, and the Wayward
Pines trilogy that was the basis for the 2015 TV series that I loved.
Reviews from Andy Weir. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: Ogg to MRO on Wed Jul 12 2023 08:04 pm

>
> M> Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
> M> By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 11 2023 10:09 pm
>
> >> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
> >> Blake Crouch
> >> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
> >> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science
> >> Fiction
>
>
> M> man people dont read anymore
>
> people == MRO ?

nobody reads anymore.
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> >> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
> >> Blake Crouch
> >> Random House Publishing Group | Ballantine Books
> >> Fiction / Thrillers - Technological / Thrillers - Suspense / Science
> >> Fiction

> M> man people dont read anymore

> people == MRO ?

MR> nobody reads anymore.

Wrong. Again. As usual.

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> M> man people dont read anymore

MR> nobody reads anymore.

Ga> Wrong. Again. As usual.

He's partly right. But he should have said "too many people don't read
anymore."

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Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 11 2023 10:09 pm

> Upgrade: A Novel | Paperback
> "You are the next step in human evolution."

Does this book have any relation to any of the movies like this? There was a
movie called "Upgrade", but it wasn't quite exactly the same plot.
Coincidentaly enough, it stars someone named Logan :D. There were some other
movies, though, along the same lines.

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M> man people dont read anymore

Og> people == MRO ?

No, because people logging into bbses hate WORDS.

I have the opposite problem -- low-cost and free ebooks have given me a
backlog of books to sort through. I use Calibre to make ebooks from most
any format, then email them to my Kindle account or read them in
Calibre.

As much as I love paper books and book culture (my first job was in a
bookstore...) being able to read with adjustable fonts and a backlight
at my age is better. Reading a used SF paperback like the early edition
of Dune that I found, with yellowing paper and faded ink is a chore.

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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

** On Thursday 13.07.23 - 08:06, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

pF> I have the opposite problem -- low-cost and free ebooks
pF> have given me a backlog of books to sort through. I use
pF> Calibre to make ebooks from most any format, then email
pF> them to my Kindle account or read them in Calibre.

There is plenty of material out there, that is for sure. The
Gutenburg Project is pretty good. I used Gutenberg to pull a
copy of Roughing It In The Woods - Suzanne Moodie. I wanted to
source all references to blackflies and deerflies to learn how
they coped with those bloodsuckers back in the day. Very handy
to do that search in ebook format or txt.

pF> As much as I love paper books and book culture (my first
pF> job was in a bookstore...) being able to read with
pF> adjustable fonts and a backlight at my age is better.
pF> Reading a used SF paperback like the early edition of Dune
pF> that I found, with yellowing paper and faded ink is a
pF> chore.

I don't need glasses (and I am the only person amongst 14 first
cousins (some older than me and some younger) and aunts and
uncles, and 2nd cousins much younger than me, that doesn't need
glasses.

I recall no issues with pocketbook format copies of The
Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand - in my teens,
but the yellowing/fading of the paper would make it a challenge
today. So far, I don't need larger fonts for anything except
that reading the Ingredients list on drug store products is
impossible most of the time. I carry a credit card sized
magnifier for that.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Thu Jul 13 2023 08:06 am

> at my age is better. Reading a used SF paperback like the early edition
> of Dune that I found, with yellowing paper and faded ink is a chore.

I haven't bought a book in 15 years. Oh wait.. Yes I have. Ten years ago I
bought a few books for college. But that's a racket. The author of the book was
the professor giving the class. I love E-books.

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Hu> I haven't bought a book in 15 years. Oh wait.. Yes I have. Ten years
Hu> ago I bought a few books for college. But that's a racket. The author
Hu> of the book was the professor giving the class. I love E-books.

In college, I had the odd professor or two who'd write their own
textbook. Mostly, they were poorly printed and spiral bound, but every
once in a while you'd see a hardbound edition.

Invariably, they'd change a word or two, increment the edition number
and require the newer edition for their class.

I took a trip a few months back and visited the campus bookstore where I
worked. The actual BOOK portion of the store had shrunk greatly, to be
taken up by sundries and a mini grocery store for the new dorms that had
kitchenettes. It makes sense, seeing that you can buy most texts online
now - and Amazon has a rental program for textbooks. Before you could
sell your texts back, but you never knew how much you'd get. This way,
the costs are up-front.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: poindexter FORTRAN to HusTler on Sun Jul 16 2023 09:17 am

> In college, I had the odd professor or two who'd write their own
>
> Invariably, they'd change a word or two, increment the edition number
> and require the newer edition for their class.

They all freakin' do this! They think they're so smart. I personally held off on buying any books at all until I was absolutely sure it was absolutely necessary. Sometimes even when it _was_ necessary, I'd just photocopy from another student in class.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: Phigan to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jul 16 2023 12:46 pm

> They all freakin' do this! They think they're so smart. I personally held off on buying any books at all until I was absolutely sure it was absolutely necessary. Sometimes even when it _was_ necessary, I'd just photocopy from another
> student in class.

On the flipside, I had a professor who told us in the first week that the university was requiring him to assign a book, so he'd include an extra credit question at the end of the first exam from the book.
Other than that, it was completely optional.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: poindexter FORTRAN to HusTler on Sun Jul 16 2023 09:17 am

> kitchenettes. It makes sense, seeing that you can buy most texts online
> now - and Amazon has a rental program for textbooks. Before you could
> sell your texts back, but you never knew how much you'd get. This way,
> the costs are up-front.

Just curious, are digital books an option in college? Are they the same price
as hardcover?

|07 HusTler

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Hu> Just curious, are digital books an option in college? Are they the
Hu> same price as hardcover?

I'm pretty sure Amazon had kindle editions of some of the texts. I'd
prefer a DRM-free version, but being able to search an ebook and carry
all of my texts in one e-reader would be a game changer in college.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blake crouch
By: poindexter FORTRAN to HusTler on Mon Jul 17 2023 07:14 am

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>
> Hu> Just curious, are digital books an option in college? Are they the
> Hu> same price as hardcover?
>
> I'm pretty sure Amazon had kindle editions of some of the texts. I'd
> prefer a DRM-free version, but being able to search an ebook and carry
> all of my texts in one e-reader would be a game changer in college.
>
>
>

You just can't browse an ebook as fast as you browse a thick book.

When I was at college, a lot of people had digital books. The gal who used to
sit right next to me had a very nice ereader their parents had given her as a
birthday gift for college. She tried it for a while and went back to paper
books in a matter of weeks.

I know you have search functions and bookmark functions with ebooks, but it is
still easier to locate information on a paper tome, specially if you mark the
pages you often reference.

I have noticed this effect with RPG books too. When your reference manual is inpaper, you tend to locate information faster at the game table. My friends are
all cheap fucks and tend to come with pirated digital copies. They take ages tofind rules and reference tables on their mobiles and tablets.

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Ar> You just can't browse an ebook as fast as you browse a thick book.

Ar> When I was at college, a lot of people had digital books. The gal who
Ar> used to sit right next to me had a very nice ereader their parents had
Ar> given her as a birthday gift for college. She tried it for a while and
Ar> went back to paper books in a matter of weeks.

eBook readers are wonderful if you are reading the book from cover to cover but
as soon as you need to jump around in the book, they get cumbersome very
quickly.

I have a really nice PocketBook eReader that I enjoy reading novels on, but all
of my reference books are paper.

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Ar> You just can't browse an ebook as fast as you browse a thick book.

Ar> When I was at college, a lot of people had digital books. The gal who
Ar> used to sit right next to me had a very nice ereader their parents had
Ar> given her as a birthday gift for college. She tried it for a while and
Ar> went back to paper books in a matter of weeks.

DW> eBook readers are wonderful if you are reading the book from
DW> cover to cover but as soon as you need to jump around in the
DW> book, they get cumbersome very quickly.

Absolute truth, right there.

I love something paper with liberal use of highlighters and notes
scribbled in the margins.

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blak
By: Gamgee to Dr. What on Tue Jul 18 2023 02:07 pm

DW>> eBook readers are wonderful if you are reading the book from
DW>> cover to cover but as soon as you need to jump around in the
DW>> book, they get cumbersome very quickly.

Ga> Absolute truth, right there.

Ga> I love something paper with liberal use of highlighters and notes
Ga> scribbled in the margins.

That reminds me of when I was in college, and when buying my textbooks, I'd try to buy used copies if available since they were cheaper than new copies. For one class, I ended up with a used copy where the previous owner had highlighted whole pages of the book (I didn't really get why they did that). One day in class, we were working in groups and had our books open, and someone else in class saw my copy of the book and said something like, "So you like highlighting?" I explained that I had bought a used copy and it was like that when I bought it.

Nightfox

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Ga> I love something paper with liberal use of highlighters and notes
Ga> scribbled in the margins.

Ni> That reminds me of when I was in college, and when buying my
Ni> textbooks, I'd try to buy used copies if available since they
Ni> were cheaper than new copies. For one class, I ended up with a
Ni> used copy where the previous owner had highlighted whole pages of
Ni> the book (I didn't really get why they did that). One day in
Ni> class, we were working in groups and had our books open, and
Ni> someone else in class saw my copy of the book and said something
Ni> like, "So you like highlighting?" I explained that I had bought
Ni> a used copy and it was like that when I bought it.

Hehe, yes it does seem strange to highlight a whole page... Many times
the used books had the important (test-able!) info highlighted, and if
you were real lucky, the margin scribbles were still legible and
relevant. :-)

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Re: Re: book: upgrade by blak
By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Tue Jul 18 2023 04:07 pm

Ni> That reminds me of when I was in college, and when buying my textbooks,
Ni> I'd try to buy used copies if available since they were cheaper than new
Ni> something like, "So you like highlighting?" I explained that I had bought

I always bought used books in college. They were MUCH cheaper and I felt if someone highlighted something it must be important so I figured that was a benefit to me. If They had no used books then I was forced to buy new. That pissed me off because I wouldn't use a highlighter cause I wanted to get the most money for it when I sold it used. I didn't do as well in class without using the highlighter. LoL. Damned if I do. Damned if I don't.
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Hello Hustler!

** On Monday 31.07.23 - 10:36, Hustler wrote to Nightfox:

Ni>> That reminds me of when I was in college, and when buying my textbooks,
Ni>> I'd try to buy used copies if available since they were cheaper than new
Ni>> something like, "So you like highlighting?" I explained that I had
Ni>> bought

H> I always bought used books in college. They were MUCH cheaper and I felt
H> if someone highlighted something it must be important so I figured that
H> was a benefit to me. If They had no used books then I was forced to buy
H> new. That pissed me off because I wouldn't use a highlighter cause I
H> wanted to get the most money for it when I sold it used.

You said it yourself that highlighting was a bonus feature in a
used textbook. So, you could have marketed your used books the
same way! :D

H> I didn't do as well in class without using the highlighter.
H> LoL. Damned if I do. Damned if I don't.

If you could do it all over again, what would you do now? ;)

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Re: book: upgrade by blak
By: Ogg to Hustler on Mon Jul 31 2023 05:52 pm

> You said it yourself that highlighting was a bonus feature in a
> used textbook. So, you could have marketed your used books the
> same way! :D
Nah. The book loses it's value when it's marked up.

> > I didn't do as well in class without using the highlighter.
> > LoL. Damned if I do. Damned if I don't.

> If you could do it all over again, what would you do now? ;)

I'd change my major to computer science instead of criminal justice. ;-)

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