I just finished reading null: $cat /dev/null_ by Dienw Neb. I found an ad for it in the back of 2600 Magazine that pi...

I just finished reading null: $cat /dev/null_ by Dienw Neb. I found an ad for it in the back of 2600 Magazine that piqued my curiosity. I’ve mentioned it here a couple times recently. If you’re the kind of person who’d be reading these words I’m writing, you’d probably enjoy this book, and you should get your hands on a copy. I don’t even know where to begin. There’s almost nothing I can tell you about the stories in it that wouldn’t spoil it in some way, and it’s far too good to take that away from you. Instead, I’ll talk about how it made me feel. This book was made for me, personally. It could’ve been, anyway. It’s about me and my friends, hanging out in dodgy clubs, or rough parts of town, or late into the night on IRC, or in roomfuls of LAN party networks. Characters are arguing about the same stupid things we argue about. They troll each other in the same ways. People stick their head in to listen, catch a couple of sentences out of context, and nope out before they accidentally…