Match BookThe New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
1999 · 349 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story is narrative nonfiction (business narrative, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in a big city setting, in the recent past, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are power and politics, class and society and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 349 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want a complete story in one book
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- power and politics, class and society, identity
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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