The Accidential Billionaires (3-49)

Summary
The exposition of this novel sets up the stage for the rest of the book, and tells you what the rest of the book is going to be like. It opens up with a junior at Harvard University named Eduardo Saverin. Saverin is at a party, and all that he is thinking about making into the Phoneix which is a club at Harvard, and "getting laid". Saverin had made a lot of smart investments during the summer that caused him to make a lot of money, and that was pretty much all that he had going for him. He was also a part of a Jewish Fraternity named Alpha Eipsilon Pi. It is during a meet and greet that he meets with Mark Zuckerberg who at the time was a Sophmore. Zuckerberg was known at Harvard for creating a software program called Synapse, a plug-in for MP3 players that allowed the players to "learn" a users prefrences and create a tailored playlist on that information. After that, he was pretty much a loser that nobody paid attention to.Next we are introduced to the Winklevoss borthers who are identical twins, Tyler and Cameron. Both of them are on the crew team at Harvard, extremely popular, good looking and on their way to becoming Olympic athletes. They were also a part of the Porc Club which was a very elite club at Harvard. The twins have an idea to to launch a website that would put Harvard's social life online, however they do not have anyone to code their website for them.Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg was busy trying to hack onto Harvard's system, so he could start a sight named the Facemash. On this site he would place pictures of all of the girls at Harvard and they would be rated.

Quote
"The project was called the Harvard Connection, and it was a website that was going to change life on campus...a website geared towards socializing..."(Mezrich 30).

Reaction
Right off the bat when I began to read this book, I knew that it was going to be very humorous, and Mezrich does just that. Instead of just stating the facts he uses narratives, and makes you feel as if you are actually in the conversations helping the characters start up Facebook, which makes the book that much more enticing. Also, Mezrich also includes other subplots that make you laugh even more. The stories that Mezrich puts in there allows you to step into the life of a student at Harvard University and see how they interact with one another. Also, Mezrich uses more than one point of view to get the stories accross, so we get information from every angle which is also cool. The quote above is very important because I think that it is foreshadowing because the Winklevoss's idea sounds just like the idea of Facebook, and all they need is a computer programmer and that is what Mark Zuckerberg does which is sort of ironic.