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Hal Glatzer

Autore di A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen

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Nome canonico
Glatzer, Hal
Data di nascita
1946
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Manhattan, New York, USA
Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Istruzione
Syracuse University (1967)
Attività lavorative
playwright
newspaper and television reporter
amateur musician
Organizzazioni
Mystery Writers of America
Sisters In Crime
Art Deco Society of California, director
curating a collection of sheet music from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
Press Club in Hawaii
Computer Press Association, co-founder (mostra tutto 7)
Audio-Playwrights
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I was born in 1946, and grew up in Manhattan, so I have my own memories of riding the Third Avenue El, of watching the Giants at the Polo Grounds, eating in old-fashioned seafood and chophouses . . . in short, of New York in its 20th Century heyday. Fascinated by science books (I still subscribe to Scientific American magazine) I went to the Bronx High School of Science, but I soon discovered that I had no head for math, and consequently no chance of becoming a scientist. In 1967 I graduated from Syracuse University, in upstate New York, and shortly afterward, moved to Hawaii, where I became a newspaper and television reporter. By the late 1970s, my old love of science led me to create a beat covering the then-new technologies of computers and telecommunications. I moved back to the mainland in 1980, and have made my living as a journalist in the computer trade press ever since. I write the Katy Green mysteries in the first person, in Katy's "voice." My technique for doing this is to think of them as having been written by someone else, a woman called Hannah Dobryn, who is writing in the years just after WWII, when the pre-war years were still a fresh memory. This enables me to keep the setting in mind, and frees me to imagine how a woman of Katy's generation would write.

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The Trapdoor by Hal Glatzer was originally published in the 80s and I think it would have been a realistic, frightening look at the computer world. I still enjoyed the book and remember those early years of computers and see how this would have people believing it could really happen….because it has.

Hackers put in trapdoors, so they can easily access a forbidden computer system and do what they will.

The Lightning is a hacker and his name is Joe. Of course, he is a nerd. 🙂 Anyone seeing him would recognize that about him. He loved his pocket protector and wore it everywhere, carefully choosing the pens. Even before he ever touched a computer, he loved to tinker with electronics, whether it was his electric train or the family’s television.

He makes his living taking from others, but gets in way over his head. There is a heart stopping moment or two, as his life is put on the line.

The Trapdoor is a great introduction into the world of computer hacking. It took half the book for me to get involved, but I would recommend meeting Joe and seeing what the repercussions are for crossing the line.

Hal Glatzer used his knowledge of computers to take us into his world and I enjoyed visiting it with him.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of The Trapdoor by Hal Glatzer.

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sherry69 | Dec 2, 2020 |
Just before Thanksgiving in 1941, musician Katy Green gets a call from fellow musician Ivy offering her a job in Ivy's new all-girl swing band. Ivy already has a gig lined up on the SS Lurline, set to sail from San Francisco to Honolulu at the end of the month. Several Hawaiians of Japanese descent are on board, and some of their fellow passengers don't try very hard to hide their racist attitudes.

My reading experience was more educational than entertaining. I learned some new things about Hawaii from the novel. The author lived in Hawaii for several years, and he used several of the characters to illustrate aspects of Hawaiian life and culture that most tourists don't see. The author's afterword reveals that he did extensive research on the SS Lurline, a real ship that did indeed sail to Honolulu in November-December 1941. The author's strength is in the descriptive passages of the book, which is no surprise since he has a background in journalism. Some of the characters leaned towards stereotypes. The dialogue was sometimes annoying, mainly because no one ever seemed to finish a conversation. The plot was somewhat unfocused, shifting back and forth between murder mystery, adventure, and espionage. I didn't like the mystery well enough to seek out other books in this series, but if the author ever writes a non-fiction book about Hawaii, I'd love to read it.… (altro)
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cbl_tn | Aug 15, 2009 |

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Voto
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ISBN
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