Team Player - Biff Mitchell Book Review

Enter a review
of your own!

Other books by
author Biff Mitchell

"Team Player"
Message Board

Review Summaries

"Team Player is a humourous glimpse into the IT industry and the effects of capitalism on the spiritual growth of the world. Malcolm Gray is caught up in a plot to destroy the world whilst trying to avoid yet another marketing meeting for a product he has never seen completed in his 5 years of working for the company.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. "
Louise Karczmarz, Resident Biff Mitchell Scholar

"Hours after finding out that he's been married for four years, Malcolm Gray stumbles across another revelation: the company he works for, ErectSoft INC (the world's largest software developer), has never actually produced a product and never finished a single project. The company employees thousands of IT workers, hundreds of whom have taken to jumping off the top of the headquarters building on this particular day. As Malcolm learns the startling truth about the company he works for, he also blunders into a plot by a group of psychotic marketing managers to plant an eavesdropping bug into the computer systems of potential clients �to save them from dealing with the wrong company�. But, it turns out that this is only a front for an even bigger plot � a plot to destroy the entire universe. The headquarters building (an exact replica of the Leaning Tower of Pizza, but a couple of thousand feet higher) is a beacon that summons a sinister force from the edges of creation. �Team Player� is a satire on work in the twenty-first century, particularly IT work, and how its absurdity affects the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us. It's also about that important �life ingredient� that hundreds of years of the Protestant Work Ethic has destroyed: magic.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. "
Biff Mitchell, Resident Biff Mitchell Scholar

Click above for the new Obama Girl Parody video!

Overall Review

Our unique search engine breaks down books and movies into dozens of literary elements, all of which are searchable.

Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%

Tone of book - humorous or laughable
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - unraveling a conspiracy
Parody Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - business executive - computer programmer
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena - An "It".
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - unemployed
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - mind reading - mind control - can fly - teleportation - can cast all sorts of spells - Invisibility - can read emotions
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - orgies - lesbians!
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

Most similar books by Gordonator ranking
Bill, The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
Gumshoe Gorilla by Keith Hartman
Numbers Don't Lie by Terry Bisson
Spindle by Ian Taylor
Finding Einstein's Molecules by John Perras

Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s).

Try our new Star Wars & Star Trek puzzle pictures! Click here

Advertise with us
Feedback
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith plot spoilers
Hobbits
The politics game
The lawyer game

3 Movie search options!
1) Simple lookup
(title or author)

or
2) Detailed movie search
(click here) or

3) One-click plot searches! Simply click on a plot below!

Animal Story

Clones

Coming of age

Cultural problems, alien culture

Explore/1st contact/ enviro story

Family relations

GIANT monster(s)

Horror story?

Inner Struggle

Lifeform altered?

Mental/magical powers focus

Parody

Political power play

Religious overtones?

Repressive society story

Robots, Computers, VR

Romance

Spying & Investigations

Tech./$$$/Info hunt

Time Travel story?

Training/Apprent.

War or Invasion

Games:
Trivia Masters!

Rescue your favorite
scifi characters from
slavery!

Talk to your favorite
scifi characters!

Eating New Yorkers
Computer Game

Pomeranians

Most recent TV & Movie discussions:

Star Trek Enterprise: T'Pol shows her nude butt on Enterprise! 9/2/2008 3:20:24 AM

Star Trek Enterprise: Jolene Blalock on T'Pol and Star Trek Enterprise 9/2/2008 3:12:39 AM

Star Trek Enterprise: Is T'Pol supposed to be a Vulcan lesbian? 9/2/2008 3:02:45 AM

Blade Runner: Blade Runner 9/1/2008 4:20:35 PM

A Boy and His Dog: A Boy and His Dog 8/31/2008 1:47:59 AM

Charmed: How can Phoebe Halliwell get an abortion? 8/29/2008 10:02:34 PM

Alien Hunter : Alien Hunter 8/28/2008 1:25:23 PM

Charmed: What's wrong with Rose McGowan's chin? 8/26/2008 8:21:36 AM

Charmed: What kind of name is Piper for a girl? 8/20/2008 5:34:24 PM

The Mask: The Mask 8/14/2008 11:06:36 PM

Newest slaves:
Vala 1:13:19 AM
Tealcs busty squeeze 1:12:59 AM
Stargate Atlantis Boob Shrink 1:12:43 AM
Janet Frasier (Sams Squeeze) 1:12:25 AM
Tokra Boob Girl 1:12:11 AM
Doctor Carolyn Lam 1:11:53 AM
Adria 1:11:35 AM
Major Samantha Carter (Butchie) 1:11:14 AM
Colonel Samantha Carter clone 1:10:32 AM
Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite) 1:10:17 AM
All slaves
(click here)

Celebrity interviews:
President George W. Bush 6:32:00 PM
Jan-Michael Vincent 2:16:51 PM
Captain Kathryn Janeway 3:47:46 PM
Jack ONeill (Richard Dean Anderson) 1:39:22 PM
Jennifer Aniston (Friends) 5:01:07 PM
All celebrities
(click here)