Jump out of your La-Z-Boy® and into your jet propelled roller blades for this amazing biography of a late 20th century naughty girl, flying on her wits and outstanding skill, to top corporate woman, completely at home in the walls of extra-normality, in her well deserved 21st century space in downtown IT land. From beginning to end of this biographic thriller, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien", the pages turn like stadium turnstiles for the super bowl.
Jeremy Smith has crafted so skillfully the path of this remarkable woman that you're with her every inch of her work worn way upwards and well past the end of her story. I want to meet her so that as I pass from here to wherever, I can hold my head up with all the nerds I'm sure to meet.
Much of the technicalities pass in the stratosphere above my head but I get it and I do love it for its otherworldly fascination. Jeremy makes it plausible, workable and useful. It shines as what is needed in the life of this talented individual and how she grabs at it fiercely, like a nettle, and takes it in stride, shaping it to good use and facing the evil that it could easily be, in the wrong hands.
Smith's command of dialog is here supreme and I felt as I read that "Alien" must be sitting alongside him as he writes. He catches all the elements of a thrilling youthful life, a woman marching without any sliver of hesitation into a world unknown and to her, seemingly "un-frightening", but to us mortals terrifying, with its dizzying heights, all night daring escapades, brilliantly devised pranks, to eventual entrepreneurship as her own boss, to birthing her acolytes, flying in.
I left her with total admiration, unbelievable awe and eventually as a willing member of a, no doubt, huge congregation of supplicants. I'll read this book again, because it really does fly. You really will have a hard job putting it down because it is so entertaining and well written.
Smith will be reading and signing this terrific book at Alpine Artisan's Open Book Club, Saturday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at the Grizzly Claw Trading Company in Seeley Lake. Seeley-Swan High School freshman Crystal Lopez will be reading her poetry as an introduction to the evening. Free. Everyone welcome.
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