Fierce.com : The Exclusive Book for Web Elitists by Hyams, Tor - 1999

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. Fine 1999. Paperback. Brand New; Marfree, acidfree; not marked-in, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours, full buyer protection -- our business is founded on your satisfaction. ; 0.85 x 8.26 x 5.54; 374 pages; Online review: Write Tor Hyams and David Scharff, "Fiercecom is our excuse for spilling misinformation on the public's lap each week. " Well, sort of. Actually, it's a Web site where they post weekly reviews of other people's Web sites, and Fiercecom : The Exclusive Book for Web Elitists contains a couple hundred of them culled from the first few years of the site's existence. Be advised, however: this is just a collection of Web site reviews approximately the same way The Divine Comedy is just a bunch of notes from Dante's dream journal. Highly opinionated (verging on warped) , these speed-typed, barely edited write-ups only occasionally provide a straight-line glimpse of the sites they purport to critique. More often the review is a pretext for a deranged rant about evil alien show dogs, an erotic reverie on getting turned on by Archie comics as a child, or some other peek into the oddly charming inner lives of cousins Scharff and Hyams. Lamentably, the sheer quantity of reviews gather .