I Had to Make a Book Trailer
Machine Man
is out today. As celebration/punishment, I offer you
this
promotional book trailer.
Max Barry wrote the novels Syrup, Jennifer Government, Company, Machine Man, and Lexicon. He also created the game NationStates and once found a sock full of pennies.
Machine Man
is out today. As celebration/punishment, I offer you
this
promotional book trailer.
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Matt (#5546)
Location: US
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Minneapolis
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Perth, Austrslia
Quote: "Let us rain some DOOM down upon the FILTHY heads of our DOOMED enemies! - Zim"
Posted: 2747 days ago
I was buying the book before. Now I'm buying more then one copy.
Stijn (#5223)
Location: Belgium
Quote: "Seek nothing and you will find everything."
Posted: 2747 days ago
Brittany O. (#1688)
Location: Montana
Quote: "people are kind of overrated "
Posted: 2747 days ago
And you sound much different then I expected.
Location: Morristown, Indiana
Quote: "Why do I blog? Simple, because Max Barry blogs."
Posted: 2747 days ago
SIGNING AND SALES AND THE BEAUTY OF BOREDOM
Recently, and by "recently" I mean the past two months, I have been unemployed. This has led me to do some odd things out of boredom. I took my nation(the_robot) off vacation mode and answered issues for the first time in several years. (I could name my own capital city? How long has this been around?) I learned to play the ukulele. I read all the books I want. I've lost weight. I've had time to journal(it's like blogging, but on paper with a pen). I'm accomplishing more things than I ever thought possible.
Despite the lack of income, I seem to be 100 times more productive and happier than when I had a job. This is probably because I worked in sales.
Sales was created by the devil himself in the book of genesis, when he sold the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to Eve, then Adam. Sales resulted in sin, death, and damnation. It has not changed much since.
Also, I'm learning sign language. Seriously, online through videos. Recently, and by "recently" I mean a couple of weeks ago, I met some deaf people, and thought, "It would be awesome if I could talk to them with sign language." So now I'm learning it. With my previous sales job, I would have met them and thought, "...I don't have time." or more likely, "I bet I could sell them my product better if I learned sign language."
-Adam
Swkoll (#5394)
Location: USA
Quote: ":)"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Billy McMahon (#4690)
Location: Variable
Quote: "revolution"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: wishing I was at home
Quote: "Question authority, not your mother!"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Colorado, United States
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Ogden, Utah
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: new york general sort of vicinity
Quote: ""It's not working" -- Joseph Clark"
Posted: 2747 days ago
lee
Location: SF, CA
Quote: "Good sex is like good Bridge: if you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." -- Mae West"
Posted: 2747 days ago
stanley becker (#5283)
Location: black hole
Quote: "DON"T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!!"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Stephen Atwood (#5559)
Location: Fort Lewis, WA
Quote: ""My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work...""
Posted: 2747 days ago
Advice, I'm afraid, that I did not take. Less than 24 hours later, I'd finished the entire piece and was already planning my second reading around my hectic schedule of learning a foreign language ( Pashto: one of two languages known to man to contain endoclitics. Thus, they are one of three languages that have dis-proven the "Lexical Integrity Hypothesis").
I've always been entertained by your stories, how they expose the most wild and insane ideas to, in all actuality, simply be following the strange and mis-guided logic that we apply today (see: Nike killing customers for profit). But this one seemed to have touched on something personal. It exposed my own personal obsession, perhaps with my own mortality, or perhaps with the maddening truth that modern prosthetics continued to be designed only to clumsily imitate Mankind's already clumsy motions of forward movement.
I have a phone roughly the size of a deck of cards that can access more information than the American president had access to twenty years ago. I can communicate globally, check facts, weather, everything at the touch of my fingers. Why would they not do more with something the size of a leg?
But as rambling and strange as my rantings may seem, I have every intention of surviving my next deployment unscathed. The only difference is that on my next deployment, as I curl up in a tent or simply a dust-worn sleeping bag, with my rifle cradled next to me, I'll have but one more damn good book to read.
Good on you, Mr. Barry.
Adam A. (#256)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Quote: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Andrew Riley (#1970)
Location: Parker, Colorado, USA
Quote: "Predictions are difficult, especially about the future."
Posted: 2747 days ago
Pre-ordered the book and it came bright and early. Looking forward to tearing through it over the weekend.
Simon (#3192)
Location: Melbourne
Quote: "I'd rather be arrogant than wrong"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Sydney, Australia
Quote: "Why are the pretty ones always insane?"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Totally excellent work on the trailer Max.
Location: Fremont, California
Quote: "www.caffeinatedmuslim.com"
Posted: 2747 days ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 2747 days ago
So the beard is not back. The beard was grown for the trailer and excised immediately afterward, under Jen's strict supervision.
Janet (#2030)
Location: California
Quote: "There are three kinds of people in this world: Those that can count and those that can't. Which one are you?"
Posted: 2746 days ago
Location: Heist, Belgium
Quote: "he reads things"
Posted: 2746 days ago
I'm still waiting for my hard-copy to arrive, but I'll probably open the package while I'm still standing at the mailbox, reading it right then and there.
Location: Ogden, Utah
Posted: 2746 days ago
Location: Ogden, Utah
Posted: 2746 days ago
Christina (#5562)
Quote: "Until you start to move, you're going nowhere!"
Posted: 2746 days ago
Chaz (#5572)
Location: California
Quote: "I have nothing quotable to say"
Posted: 2744 days ago
The reason I comment though is because this trailer is bloody brilliant and well-appreciated. I posted it on my G+ and shared it with the store owner who has shared it with everyone. Including the store Facebook.
Not a single other book trailer has come close to grabbing out attention like this. Oh, and because of that you have already sold several copies here.
Cheers.
ryandake (#2199)
Location: scenic monterey, ca
Quote: ""The rest is not our business.""
Posted: 2744 days ago
Location: USA
Quote: "O Lord, Protect us from those to whom you speak directly"
Posted: 2744 days ago
but there was one thing i remembered about the serial that was markedly missing.
the phrase: "Don't do that thing!"
i'm only about halfway through, maybe it comes up later. please tell me you did not leave it out!
Joanna (#5296)
Location: Seattle, WA
Quote: ""The wise man despises no one. Instead, he watches him closely and tries to discover the roots of what he sees." (Gogol, Dead Souls)"
Posted: 2744 days ago
Colby (#5585)
Location: California, USA
Quote: ""... when we started making better machines than people.""
Posted: 2740 days ago
I purchased it a couple of days after it was published, and I have to say you are a great writer. I was so hooked by the first chapter of the serial, and now I am hooked on the book as a whole and can't wait to see what happens. I am about 60% through the book in a matter of one and a half days, and I am torn between finishing it and letting it sit for a bit because I don't want it to be over.
Anyway, great book! Good enough quality that I may very likely purchase your other books. I read somewhere that movie rights have been optioned, and I cannot wait to see that realized!
Great work. :)
Dustin (#5586)
Location: United States
Quote: "It is far wiser to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, then to open it, and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln"
Posted: 2737 days ago
Location: new york general sort of vicinity
Quote: ""It's not working" -- Joseph Clark"
Posted: 2732 days ago
I didn't actually read every word of the serial again...just skimmed through assorted pages and comments. But what a great experience that was...in 2009. For those of us who were in the original group, commenting and reading a page a day, it was a communal experience. You go back to the last page and read those comments again and you can see how the readers reacted to the ending in real time, each one piping in the satisfaction, the loss, someone even shed a tear.
Any of the other subscribers have any thoughts like this? Anybody go back and look at the serial after reading the book? This should be taught in lit classes...the serial, the comments and the book together. (and btw, max, the scenes at angelica's worked fine in the book...dunno what I was thinking questioning that in the serial.)
Dana (#5604)
Posted: 2728 days ago
blab (#1632)
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Quote: "Adventure is just poor planning"
Posted: 2720 days ago
paola (#5751)
Location: Italy, Milan
Quote: "I am a publisher: I have to have booktrailers! "
Posted: 2654 days ago
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