en-US Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:07:06 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Friend1375842292 Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:07:06 -0700 ReadStatus7082807028 Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:43:40 -0700 /review/show/5893325039 Jxm wants to read Shadow Storm by Jennifer Aitken
]]> Comment266351237 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:52:43 -0700 /topic/show/22596021-will-review-your-books Jxm made a comment in the Authors & Reviewers group:

Cool thanks, Eliah! ]]> Comment266349315 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:55:09 -0700 /topic/show/22624626-reviews-reviewers-and-pub-versions-of-books-a-mystery-novel-in-the-mak Jxm made a comment on The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon:

Hey readers and writers of Good Reads,

I was curious... I got an interesting response. Someone wanted to review my book on amazon.com

Its always lovely to have people express interest in your book, especially "good readers" like all of you!

So I followed up. I was a little surprised when they asked if I could I send a pub version.

I find pub versions very difficult to read. I was just curious if a reviewer wanting a pub version was unusual... the person did not accept friend requests and now seems out to reach...

(They said that they could not use kindleunlimited, even though I think my book is currently free on amazon....)

So it got me wondering...and musing... If nothing else, small curious moments can be the impetus to a mystery/conspiracy/science fiction novel.

Soon a story emerged. My mind ran around chasing it, observing, letting the characters and plot grow and feint, as they do.

Within five minutes, it became: "A mysterious reviewer online solicits books to review, but then copies them to be rewritten by chatgpt, and publishes the rewritten crappy AI book on Amazon under a different name and title.

What a clever scam! (I hope people do not do it). This is something that almost no one would ever catch or notice. Just another digital copy hidden in a flurry of other digital provocations...

My story sense required a twist: surprisingly both the initial real book and the purloined AI rewritten book start to sell. And sell and sell!

Both books describe a series of unlikely surprising events. Oddly they occur in real life. A library closes, and someone discovers that all of the books were dumped at sea.

The oddity of the senseless loss of books strikes a nostalgic cord. Why not just give the books away? The odd revelation lingers in the collective mind unanswered.

And ironically, the series of events in the book continues : Across the world, some clandestine secret society is discretely lobbying for public and private libraries to close as a cost cutting measure. University libraries are being digitized and the books stored out of circulation. Book publishers are being bought out by venture capitalists. Some one is rewriting Wikipedia almost as fast as it can be written. School text books are now electronic documents, without physical copies, that appear to be rewritten as they please. And an enigmatic billionaire industrialist just bought the biggest publishers of academic history books, only to sponsor a new mandate to have every text updated with the help of AI.

The original texts are disappearing. No one can quite remember them accurately. In their place, vaguely familiar words seem to change almost weekly, telling different stories.

The good readers of good reads notice the similarities and difference between the books and then set out to solve the mysteries. They soon realize that only the real author of the real book would know the true extent of the subterfuge.


But the real author suddenly disappears, goes into hiding, twitter rumors of threat to kill the real author ...

and then...

A good reader discovers that the rewritten AI books are embedded with coded roadmap to a clandestine society that is using AI to rewrite every book on Amazon and revise every reference on line. They are systematically rewriting history, literature, culture, civilization and religion. They are systematically revising every image in every book and telling a subtly different ever evolving story. History becomes a malleable text, a changling.

The secret society is irked that its activities are revealed before it has finished, so the clandestine society unleashes more computer power and more resources to expedite the transformation of all text and culture before anyone can stop it. The secret society
diverts vast resources to hack major web sites, delete the text of each web site and replace the text and photos with the preferred rewritten verbiage from chatgpt and deep fake images from Midjourney, hoping or realizing that most people will not notice or will not care.

It is soon clear that that this secret society is using AI to rewrite wikipedia, school text books, history books, to tell one story: the “great man�� myth: that human culture and civilization was developed by a series of superhuman geniuses, typically white men, who should not be questioned, who do not have to answer or justify themselves..

The real author, now in hiding, is the key to unravelling the truth. The real author was once a computer technician inside the clandestine society. She secretly maintained a back up of all the files that had been changed or deleted. She alone has all of the true text in her possession.

Now the society has to find her and delete the back up files, to forever delete history. The society is threatened by exposure and is desperate to find the original author. She alone has the information and she alone can prevent them from rewriting human history.... so


(I have to stop avoiding the work that I have to do.... but it does illustrate perhaps a character flaw of authors and other dreamers: curious ideas can be far more interesting than working in the real world! )

What do you think? Of any of it?

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]]> Review5835897710 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:42:11 -0700 /review/show/5835897710 Jxm gave 5 stars to Welcome to the Monkey House (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
]]> Review5835897023 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:41:53 -0700 /review/show/5835897023 Jxm gave 5 stars to Cat’s Cradle (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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