Reviews

Praise for Richard Dooling:
"Rapture for the Geeks"
"Surprisingly engrossing, quick-witted."
--"New York Observer"
"One doesn't expect a nonfiction book to be fascinating, chilling, thoughtful, and funny in equal measure. This one is. My question: When computers become smarter than humans, and especially if they take over, will they regard Rick Dooling as dangerous, prescient, sympathetic . . . or irrelevant?"
--Kurt Andersen
"Bet Your Life"
"Manages to invoke Double Indemnity, the Old Testament, and Fountains of Wayne with equal vehemence and thriller wit. . . . If you're not hooked, you're one dead mackerel."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Fascinating . . . A socially relevant satire [that's] midway between John Grisham and Carl Hiaasen."
--"The New Yorker"
"Brainstorm"
""Brainstorm" is simply brilliant--hilarious, thought-provoking, and masterfully crafted. The characters are fantastic and irresistible but completely believable, and their banter is so witty and natural that a reader can forget they are debating ideas at the cutting edge of brain science and philosophy."
--Steven Pinker, author of" How the Mind Works"
"Exuberant . . . deeply pleasurable . . . Here is a whodunit that achieves a comic fugue-state mastery of the language of our sexually charged, violent, technocratic society."
--Colin Harrison, "New York Times Book Review"
"Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech and Sexual Harassment"
"A charmingly impudent essay on language and sexual politics . . . an extremely clever and creative sort of literary acting out."
--Richard Bernstein, "New York Times"
"White Man's Grave"
"A bravura display of satire . . .Dooling evokes the humane checks and balances of a deep world: the logic, you might say, of its magic."
--Richard Eder," Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"One doesn't expect a non-fiction book to be fascinating, chilling, thoughtful and funny in equal measure. This one is. My question: when computers become smarter than humans, and especially if they take over, will they regard Rick Dooling as dangerous, prescient, sympathetic...or irrelevant?"
--Kurt Andersen