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I had to post a link to this story about Ben Mezrich, author of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”, which landed in bookstores on Tuesday. I’ve not read the book but the quotes in the story are priceless so I had to share a few of them. These are excerpted from the Reuters article.

“It’s not a nonfiction book. It’s a true story, “Mezrich told Reuters. “I am a narrative nonfiction writer in a way that other people don’t write. I’m trying to create my own genre of nonfiction.”

“Anybody who read this book who was in it, Mark Zuckerberg for instance –what he says publicly is different–but if he sat in his room and read it, he would put it down and say, ‘Yeah, that’s what happened,” Mezrich said. “And that’s what makes it n0n-fiction.”

To that end, because of my decade long career as a technology journalist I’ve thought up some other good titles for books that have to do with Silicon Valley.

“The Dark Ellison Oracle: A Tale of Software, Hard Drives and Boas on Keyboards” – book detailing Larry Ellison‘s Oracle corporation.

“One F-ing Book At A Time: How Bezos Lost Hair and Gained Marketshare” - Amazon’s story.

“The Big Blue Downfall – Navy Suits, Old Cigars, Giant Mainframes and Crushed Monitors” – IBM‘s story

“Twitter -The Dark Side of the Tweets and What the Ouija Board Told Biz Stone” – Twitter story

“Geeks Searching For Booze, Girls, Jet Planes, and Silk Sweatpants: How Google Took Over the World” – Google Story

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