Boring, tedious, sanctimonious and badly narrated

It takes a lot of effort to turn a book on the era of the Apple II computer into a boring slog, but this author spared no effort in doing so. When she isn't bashing you over the head with icons of the industry (Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, et al) getting where they got thanks to 'male, white, middle-class, Harvard-educated privledge' and taking shots at the entire industry and hobby of computing's 'whiteness', the author is inflating her word count by taking four sentences to say something that could be relayed in two. Her constantly meandering, overly verbose prose caused me, more often than not, to lose interest and my attention to begin drifting.

And the narrator was a horrible choice. If you are going to have a book that reads more like a scolding, pompous lecture than an entertaining work on the Apple II era and why it was so important to the history of personal computing, DO NOT have it read by someone who sounds like a breathy, slow, dime store cheesy romance novel narrator. The narrator's drawn out phrasing and pauses added at least three hours to the length of what this audiobook should have been.

Give this book a pass and hope for something better.

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