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Level 26 / Dark Origins / Introducing the first Digi-Novel / from the creator of the hit show CSI / Advance Uncorrected Manuscript -- Not For Sale
Published by Dutton, New York, 2009
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Unread but with some minor tearing/fraying to top outside corner of the double front wrap. States "First printing, September 2009." Number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Advance bound proofs for review, promising a 200,000-copy first printing with substantial Online promotion. What can we conclude about the author's (and publishers') estimate of the attention span of their target readership from the fact that this book of 383 pp. is divided into 107 "chapters," with the promise that after each 20-odd pages of this "crime thriller" the reader is given the option of logging into a Web site "to watch two to three minutes of motion picture footage," featuring "A-list actors starring in scenes that I have written and directed . . . which will bridge the story from one chapter to another"? "Call it Storytelling 2.0," Mr. Zuiker recommends. "The Web site might ask for your phone number and the killer may call you back." If this hermaphrodite genre has caught on like gangbusters over the past 12 years, we must have missed it. Scott A. Johnson may indicate why in his review at DreadCentral: "The book's main selling point, that it's an interactive novel, is also its biggest weakness. The professional-looking shorts that are a major part of the plot are well done (Dark broods, Michael Ironside chews scenery, Daniel Browning Smith is creepy as all hell as Sqweegel), and do fill in the plot points that the book purposefully leaves out. However, they also distract the reader from actually reading the book. . . . Just when it starts to pull the reader in, he's abruptly yanked back out by a note in the book that tells him to go to the website for a crucial piece of information. . . . It gets repetitive and annoying when, every twenty pages, the reader sees a message that says 'to find out what happens next . . .' It's an admirable first effort at bridging the gap between the two mediums," reviewer Johnson concludes, "but it just doesn't work." 383 pp.
