Mezrich’s book, however, is a disappointment. I trashed it on VentureBeat and also in the Wall Street Journal, so I’m feeling sorry for the author now. I’ll give him this: He went down swinging. But Facebook’s central character, Mark Zuckerberg, refused to speak to Mezrich for the book. Almost certainly as a result, Mezrich was unable to concoct a convincing, three-dimensional Mark Zuckerberg character and an engaging tale of Facebook’s creation.
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