Year Zero: A Novel
Jul 2012 · Del Rey
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Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.
Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.
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4.1
203 reviews
Max Guernsey
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21 December 2012
Overall, I enjoyed this read. It was an interesting story told with a consistent voice. I never laughed out loud but I knew it wouldn't be that kind of book after the free sample. The book is definitely and obviously written with an agenda in mind. If you already align with it, you'll probably enjoy it more than I did.
A Google user
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6 February 2015
It was a fairly decent read and it did have its moments that really got me chuckling, but the story was pretty bland and it didn't have that spark that I was looking for when I read the synopsis. Unique idea but delivered only decently.
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14 August 2012
I usually don't even read books like these. I mean, it's a lawyer trying to save the world. I don't believe in oximorons. But, after hearing how funny it was, I decided to give it a shot, and I am so glad that I did! This writer could very well be our next Douglas Adams, or possibly even better!
About the author
Rob Reid is the founder of Listen.com, which created the Rhapsody service, the world’s largest seller of online music until it was eclipsed (rather badly, he’ll admit) by Apple’s iTunes service. He is the author of Year One, a memoir about student life at Harvard Business School, and Architects of the Web, a business history of the Internet. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Morgan.
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